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THEATER On Broadway The Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four desperate people break out of the cycle of self-concern to achieve self-transcendence. Williams' best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
...people in these provinces had every opportunity to repudiate us,'' Frondizi said, "but they did not." Despite the hopeful signs, Per&243;nista rallies grew to impressive size. "Per&243;n or death!" slogans appeared on streetcar islands and walls. Framini, although an anti-Communist and a practicing Roman Catholic, began campaigning against Frondizi for selling out to "Yankee imperialism." Che Guevara's Red mother Celia showed up at Per&243;nista rallies, asking that"the voice of Cuba, sister of Per&243;nism, be heard." The Per&243;nistas had no need to ask what little...
...Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four people who have come to the frayed rope end of life find the strength to go on. In its acceptance of human limitations, this is Williams' wisest play. As drama, it is his best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four people who have come to the frayed rope-end of life find the strength to go on. In its acceptance of human limitations, this is Williams' wisest play. As drama, it is possibly his best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
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