August 2006 Theater Outing: Night of the Iguana (Williams)

Post date: Jan 07, 2010 8:46:42 PM

Each year the bookclub reads a play and goes to see a local production. This August, book club read and attended Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams (Live Oak Theater production in Berkeley, August 12, 2006). In this play, "the self-loathing, sexually angst-ridden Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon seeks refuge in a hidden Mexican hotel." Our group included several Smithies plus friends and partners, and we quite enjoyed the show. Many of us had read the play before seeing it, and from brief conversations at intermissions and on the way out, the characters and relationships on the stage were much more complex than the written script had indicated.