night lights
the night of the iguana
williams wrote this is a play about love in its purest terms . it is also williamss robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering . the earthy widow maxine faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a mexican cliff overlooking the pacific ocean where the defrocked rev. shannon his tour group of ladies from a west texas womens college the self described new england spinster hannah jelkes and her ninety seven year old grandfather jonathan coffin the worlds oldest living and practicing poet a family of grotesque nazi vacationers and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night . this is the first trade paperback edition of the night of the iguana and comes with an introduction by award winning playwright doug wright the authors original foreword the short story the night of the iguana which was the germ for the play plus an essay by noted tennessee williams scholar kenneth holditch . im tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquent yeah thats what i said i shouted all your western theologies the whole mythology of them are based on the concept of god as a senile delinquent and by god i will not and can not continue to conduct services in praise and worship of this ... this ... this angry petulant old man . the rev. t. lawrence shannon from the night of the iguana