Word: iguana
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...Having seen Iguana, I can see that Williams must suffer-if only from hearing the audience bray with laughter at what is not meant to be funny...
...CONCERNED WITH THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND OUR HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR EXTRAORDINARILY PERCEPTIVE PIECE ON TENNESSEE WILLIAMS...
...conversations. "Tom always was a little pitcher with big ears, and I think he still is," says Mrs. Williams. Years later, until the old man died at 98, Williams kept his grandfather with him six months a year, took him to Key West and abroad (and modeled Iguana's Nonno on him). "My grandfather was not the most masculine sort of man," says Williams. "He was not effeminate, but there was nothing that delighted him more than to receive a bottle of cologne or silk handkerchiefs as gifts...
...When Iguana opened in late December 1961, Williams proved to be in his best dramatic form since Streetcar, with the debatable exception of Cat. By echoing a strain of gentleness unheard since Menagerie, Iguana served to bracket the whole range of Williams' achievement, a body of work so substantial that it now casts a larger shadow than the man who made it. In that shadow lies a form of theater as well as a series of plays, the theater of Chekhovian sensibility mated with the Freudian irrational unconscious. The champion of the rival Ibsenite theater of social
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In what may be his wisest play, the author gathers four of life's castaways on a Mexican veranda and probes their violated hearts...