The Night of the Iguana (Frau Fahrenkopf), Matt Bennett (Hank), Barbara Caruso (Judith Fellows), Allison Argo (Charlotte Goodall), William Roerick (Nonno), Benjamin Stewart (Jake Latta), Dorothy McGuire (Hannah), and Sylvia Miles (Maxine). The Night of the Iguana The Night of the Iguana is a stage play written by American author Tennessee Williams, based on his 1948 short story. First staged as a one-act play in 1959, Williams developed it into a full-length play over the next two years, staging two different versions in 1959 and 1960, before arriving at the three-act version of the text which premiered on Broadway in 1961. Two film adaptations have
Blue iguana and "ourá" (οὐρά) meaning "tail", after the thick-ringed tail characteristic of all "Cyclura". Its specific name ("lewisi" ) is a Latinized form of the name of the scientist who collected the holotype of this species, Bernard C. Lewis. Its closest relatives are the Cuban iguana ("Cyclura nubila") and the Northern Bahamian rock iguana ("Cyclura cychlura"), the three species having diverged from a common ancestor some three million years ago. The species has a low genetic diversity but does not seem to suffer the same lack of vitality that afflicts other such species of rock iguana. One theory is that the