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REVIEW
by BILL WALLIS
The best that community
theatre can offer the public is
often good. The Lincoln Com
munity Playhouse's recent
production of Tennessee
William's "Night of the Ig
uana" was, in many respects,
quite good.
Williams, who is ranked se
cond to O'Neill in stature in
American playwrighting (and a
good deal ahead of cliche-ridden
Edward Albee, who oc
cupies third), writes his plays
about, to and for man; but man
for Williams is a sick creature.
He is isolated, frightened; his
life is like (in Williams' own
words) "a funny paper read
backward" not so funny. He
alternately scorns and paws his
fellow man. His lower nature
constantly leaps to the con
scious surface In the form of
"spooks," driving man to
commit selfish crimes, or go
insane with self-imposed
loneliness.
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Man is badgered, brutalized
and deprived by his fellow
man. Williams' heroes are
people not meant to win; they
are sometimes fragile spirits,
sometimes inmates of life
fleeing and old God. Primarily
a moral symbolist, Williams
makes myths of vices to bring
his characters and audiences to
terms with reality.
"Iguana" has been called the
playwright's most optimistic
play. It is primarily a study of
loneliness. Shannon, a
defrocked Episcopalian
minister, flees from his fear of
orthodox religion and self
knowledge into a nightmare
world where he seduces young
women In vague attempts at
communication and survives by
driving a touring bus through
Mexico.
The story is of Shannon and
the two women he encounters
in a low-class tourist villa in
the mountains of Mexico.
Maxine, an earthy widow of
results
THEODORE H. WHITE,
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author
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one week, who owns the villa,
is played well by Leta Drake.
Her performance is generally
good, but not as consistant as
other major characters proved
to be in over-all impression.
She seemed to vacillate
between a naturalistic and a
realistic approach to acting her
character.
Consistency was, however,
the key work for Pat Dicken
son's portrayal of Hanna
Jelkes, a traveling artist-spinster
who has withdrawn from life
by caring for her poet-grandfather
as they journey around
the world peddling their wares.
She was fragile, vulnerable,
strangely innocent, and
puritanically strong her
performance was sensitive,
excellent and effective.
Andy Backer's portrayal of
Shannon was also very good.
The play is Shannon's story
when his character is well-
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done. Shannon is the type of
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reflects his great gift for stage
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characters. The fact that the
play was largely consistant
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Jim Lindsay as Nonno, the
ancient poet in the last throes
of creative activity was ef
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Scenic design by Arthur Kuhr
was the best so far of this
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The production was over-all
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