The Night of the Iguana (Acting Edition for Theater

The Night of the Iguana (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
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Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.
Williams wrote: â€œThis is a play about love in its purest terms.â€ It is also Williamsâ€™s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas womenâ€™s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (â€œthe worldâ€™s oldest living and practicing poetâ€), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night.

This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the authorâ€™s original Foreword, the short story â€œThe Night of the Iguanaâ€ which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch.

â€œIâ€™m tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquentâ€”yeah, thatâ€™s what I said, I shouted! All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot continue to conduct services in praise and worship of thisâ€¦thisâ€¦this angry, petulant old man.â€
Â Â Â Â Â Â â€”The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana
Country USA
Brand Brand: Dramatists Play Service
Manufacturer Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780822208235
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Dramatists Play Service
Manufacturer	Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780822208235
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Night of the Iguana (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

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