Event

The Night of the Iguana

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.