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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams November 2007

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A family………….dysfunctional
Passions………….running high
Sexuality…………..ambiguous
The Truth…………..buried under lies

Played out one hot and steamy evening on a plantation on the Mississippi delta…this could only be a Tennessee Williams play starring………..Maggie ‘the cat’, the angry and frustrated feline in question; her husband Brick an alcoholic ex football player and younger son of Big Daddy the vulgar patriarch and tycoon, Big Mama his long suffering wife, Gooper the elder son and father to several ‘no neck little monsters’ and Sister Woman his predatory scheming wife, plus a doctor, a lawyer…..and the aforementioned ‘no neck monsters’!

Infidelities, addictions, latent homosexuality, depression, greed, unrequited love and mendacity are woven into this powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Tensions mount as the family is forced together under one roof, where secrets are revealed and relationships are exposed, all fuelled by Tennessee Williams's insightful, witty and brilliant dialogue.

‘Now, you keep forgetting the conditions under which I agreed to stay on living with you!’ Brick to Maggie’

‘I'm not living with you! We occupy the same cage, that's all.’ Maggie to Brick

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