Reviewed by Tony Annicone

 

Gamm Theatre’s first show of their 34th season in their new theatre in Warwick is “Night of the Iguana” by Tennessee Williams which is based on his 1946 short story. He later developed it into a three act play. It is the darkly tragicomic 1961 show about humanity’s difficulty in hanging onto love, faith and grace, set on the brink of World War II when these things were sorely lacking which sounds a lot like things these days, too. The show is set in 1940 at a run down Costa Verde Hotel on the west coast of Mexico where the recently widowed Maxine Faulks sees a chance to hang onto her life and trade when an old pal from Texas visits her.

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