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The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
Set in 1940 at a Mexico hotel on a cliff overlooking the ocean, The Night of the Iguana quickly introduces audiences to the complicated Reverend Lawrence Shannon, who was locked out of his church after one year as an Episcopal priest for fornication and heresy in the same week. He referred to God as a senile delinquent, had an affair with a young Sunday school teacher, and ended up in an asylum to be treated for a nervous breakdown. Reduced to working as a cut-rate tour guide for a group of Baptist school teachers, Shannon quickly finds himself in trouble again for sleeping with a young woman in the group. The play begins with Shannon seeking refuge at hard-drinking Maxine Faulk's rundown hotel in rural Mexico, leaving his bus full of Baptist women at the bottom of the hill. As a fierce tropical storm rolls in, Shannon must wrestle with the passions of the women around him the wrath of a Texas school teacher, the advances of a lustful teenager and the jealousies of the widowed hotel owner as he seeks solace with a new arrival a pure, spinster painter Hannah Jelkes travelling with her grandfather Nonno, the world's oldest living and practicing poet.
The Night of the Iguana will be performed on the mainstage of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre for the Tennessee Williams Festival. It will run at the Festival on March 26 at 7:30 pm and March 27 at 3:00 pm. There will also be additional performances the following weekend Thursday April 1, Friday April 2 and Saturday April 3 all at 7:30 pm.
In speaking of The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams once said "this is a play about love in its purest terms." Theatre UNO is thrilled to bring this love story to life with a dedicated student cast. Directed by Beau Bratcher, director of last year's Much Ado About Nothing and the hit Tennessee Williams Festival production of Weird two years ago, this production stars James Yeargain (Shannon), Chrissy Garrett (Hannah), Natalie Boyd (Maxine), Bradley Troll (Nonno), Lucy Faust (Miss Fellowes), Caroline Langlois (Charlotte Goodall), Daniel Schubert-Skelley (Herr Fahrenkompf), Elizabeth Gore (Frau Fahrenkompf), Rebecca Laborde (Hilda), James Vitale (Wolfgang), Louis Saubat, III (Pancho), Matthew Martinez (Pedro), Marshall Carby (Hank), Trey Guillory (Jake Latta), and as Bus Tourists Renee Rodriguez, Shelby Butera, and Jennifer Hayes. This production will also feature the work of Kevin Griffith (Scenic Designer), Shannon R. Miller (Light Designer), and Tony French (Costume Designer).
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LocationLe Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
616 Saint Peter St.
New Orleans, LA 70116
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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