The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana (AKA The Night of the Iguana ) is a book written by Tennessee Williams play about a working as a tour guide former pastor, who gets through a pubescent 16 -year-old girl and her amorous intentions, which he resists, however, in difficulties.

The play had on December 28, 1961 at the Royale Theatre, now the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway premiere and there was Williams' last great success. Two years later, the piece under the same title by American director John Huston star-studded ( and Others Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr) was filmed (see The Night of the Iguana (film ) ). In the film adaptation occurring in the stage version of Nazis accounted roles as members of the travel company. A remake there were 2001.

German -language premieres

  • October 1962: by Oscar Fritz Schuh, Director: Charles Regnier, Starring: Gisela Holzinger, Grete Mosheim, Wolfgang Kieling; Cologne Theatre
  • October 1962: Director Willy Maertens, roles: Heinz Bennents, Gisela Mattishent, Inge Meysel, image Erich Grandeit; Thalia Theater ( Hamburg)

Expenditure

  • The Night of the Iguana. Portrait of a Madonna. And four more Einakter.Übers. Franz Hoellering, Hans Sahl. Fischer TB 547, Frankfurt 1963. As a single text ibid. 1999 ISBN 3596119855
  • Completeness. Text in: ". . Theater heute journal for drama, opera, ballet" Vol 4, No. 3 März 1963. 's Note Henning Rischbieter

Weblink

  • " Man seeks human contact. " The female characters in T. Williams ' " The Night of the Iguana " (PDF; 826 kB) by Sonja dispute, Magistra - work of the University of Vienna, the field of theater, film and media studies, 2010
  • Review of the piece on the occasion of the first performances, in Time, author abbreviation jac, October 26, 1962
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