Tennessee in Mexico  "Nothing human disgusts me, unless it's
unkind or violent." So remarks Hannah Jelkes, the spinster-
paragon of The Night of the Iguana. She could be speaking for
her creator, Tennessee Williams. That's very likely just what
Williams had in mind--reading or watching him, one always has
the feeling that Williams saw himself as one of those
epigrammatic, delicate-yet-strong old maids he so loved to
depict.  The Night of the Iguana is set on the veranda of a
small, ramshackle hotel atop a jungle hill on the Mexican
Riviera. The original production, staged in 1961, was set in
1940; the current ASU production has been updated to 1989.  Now,
when the German tourists come bursting onto the veranda where
Miss Jelkes and the other main character, T. Lawrence Shannon,
are baring their souls to each other, the news about which
they're exultant isn't the blitz on London, but the collapse of
the Berlin Wall.  As skewed as that parallel may sound, the
updating works. The Night of the Iguana feels much le