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...merchant of Broadway, writer of Orpheus Descending (murder by blow torch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania, homosexuality), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality), Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration, syphilis), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, underwear fetishism, coprophagy...
...unnatural affections. Other critics think that Williams' choice of themes shows America to be -as angry young British Playwright John Osborne puts it -"as sex-obsessed as a medieval monastery." Yet Tennessee Williams fills foreign playhouses from Athens to Tokyo, and his current play, The Night of the Iguana, though it shuns obsession with sex, is a box-office sellout and much the best new American play of the season...
...rack of guilt, in the slough of doubt, more homeless than any migratory bird, Tennessee Williams wrestles with his fears. "I pray a lot, especially when I'm scared," he says. No one who sees The Night of the Iguana will need to be told the words. They are in Nonno's poem...
...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...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In a play of nocturnal mood and meaning, Williams assembles a defrocked minister, a spinster, a sensual spitfire and a nonagenarian poet on a Mexican hotel veranda, where their defeated dreams converge in an elegiac pattern of destiny...