The Night Of The Iguana
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Eddie Kurtz
July 14 - August 12, 2006
In 1940s Mexico, an ex-minister, Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, has been locked out of his church after characterizing the Occidental image of God as a "senile delinquent", during one of his sermons. Shannon is not de-frocked, but institutionalized for a "nervous breakdown".
Some time after his release, Rev. Shannon obtains employment as a tour guide for a second-rate travel agency. Shortly before the opening of the play, Shannon is accused of having committed statutory rape of a sixteen-year old girl, named Charlotte Goodall, who is accompanying his current group of tourists.
As the curtain rises, Shannon is arriving with a group of women at a cheap hotel on the coast of Mexico that had been managed by his friends Fred and Maxine Faulk. The former has recently died, and Maxine Faulk has assumed sole responsibility for managing the establishment.
Cast
Laura Jane Bailey .............................. Maxine
Margery Bailey .................................. Hannah
Jeff Bell ............................................ Shannon
Richard Dorn ..................................... Jake, German tourist
Virginia Handley ................................ Miss Fellows, German tourist
Production
Director .......................................... Eddie Kurtz
Set Design ...................................... Rose Anne Raphael
