The Night of the Iguana is a stageplay written by American author Tennessee Williams. It premiere in Broadway in 1961, and was based on a 1948 short story by Williams. There have been two film adaptations made, including the Academy Award-winning 1964 film of the same name. Set in 1940s Mexico, the main character is an ex-minister, Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon. He was locked out of his church after he characterized the Occidental image of God as a "senile deliquent," during one of his sermons. He is not de-frocked, but rather institutionalized for a "nervous breakdown." Some time after his release, he assumed his currently responsibilities as a tour guide for a second-rate travel agency. Shortly before the opening of the curtain, Shannon is accused of having committed a statutory rape of a sixteen-year old girl, named Charlotte Goodall, who is accompanying his current group of tourists.