west palm beach magazine
Arts & Entertainment
the 2016 - 2017 Season
T
he new season gets underway at the
Don & Ann Brown Theatre on Friday
evening, October 14 with Tennessee
Williams’ final masterpiece, the autumnal The Night of the Iguana (1961). It
will be followed on December 2 by Jay
Presson Allen’s wickedly funny Tru (1989),
a one-man show that takes place at a
particularly lonely time in the life of
novelist Truman Capote.
Opening on February 3 is Collected
Stories (1996), Donald Margulies’ richly
textured exploration of friendship and
ethics between an older writer and her
protégée. The season continues on
March 29 with Tom Stoppard’s Oliver
Award-winning Arcadia (1993), his luminous and illuminating comedy of ideas
that is set in two different centuries and
is generally regarded as his finest work.
The season concludes with The Cripple
of Inishmaan (1996), Martin McDonagh’s
poignant, tragicomedy that carries on
the tradition of great Irish storytelling.
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at Palm Beach Dramaworks
presents a lineup of five
provocative and widely
acclaimed plays!
The Night of the Iguana
By Tennessee Williams
October 14 - November 13, 2016
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s last
major play, a defrocked and spiritually bankrupt
minister takes refuge at a Mexican hotel and
connects with a kind, lonely artist who could
hold the key to his salvation.
The Night of the Iguana is Tennessee Williams’
soul-searching, compassionate, surprisingly funny, and achingly poetic 1961
play. Williams’ last major work is set in the summer of 1940 and takes place at
the Costa Verde Hotel in Puerto Barrio, on the west coast of Mexico.
Arriving with a busload of very
unhappy female American tourists
is the dissipated, self-destructive
Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon,
whose personal demons and scandalous behavior led to his banishment from the pulpit. On the verge
of a nervous breakdown - not his
first - he is reduced to playing tour
guide for a fifth-rate travel agency.
Shannon has taken his angry group
to an unscheduled stop at the Costa
Verde to seek guidance and comfort
from the proprietor, only to discover
that his friend, Fred, recently died
and that the hotel is no w being run
by Fred’s widow, the lusty Maxine
Faulk. But Shannon makes a connection with another new arrival,
Hannah Jelkes, a kind, lonely,
penniless artist, who is traveling with
her grandfather, 97-year-old Nonno,
a minor poet hoping to complete
one more poem before he dies.
The Night of the Iguana was inspired
by a trip Williams took to Acapulco in the
summer of 1940, when he stayed at a
sparsely populated hotel called
Costa Verde.
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