Future Productions – Sutton Amateur Dramatic Club

20th to 23rd November 2024

at the Adrian Mann Theatre, Ewell, KT17 3DR to be directed by Dick Bower

The Night of the Iguana is a classic piece of theatre by acclaimed American playwright, Tennessee Williams, that exposes the “heart of the human condition”. Originally performed in 1961 on Broadway with a cast that included Bette Davis and Shelley Winters, it won Williams his fourth New York Drama Critics Award and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. It was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1964, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr.

The play has had several revivals in London including one that Richard Eyre directed at the National Theatre in 1992 and, most recently, another in 2019 at the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre starring Clive Owen. Now SADC will bring you this sultry but powerful psychological drama with its underlying themes of sexual desire, alienation and loneliness.

Set in a run-down Mexican hotel on the edge of the jungle, a very disparate group of people, all exquisitely rendered through Williams’s “lambent, fluid, malleable and colloquially melodious” writing, comes together in the heat of the tropics. The three main characters have something in common – they have reached a climacteric in their troubled lives. They grapple with the prospects for their futures but will the changes set them free from their pasts? The iguana of the title is a metaphor, a creature captured and tied up by the hotel staff, desperate for release. But, for our characters, is freedom what they want? Or is it too daunting?

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