Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Drama)

Synopsis

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* introduces the Pollitt family; a wealthy Southern clan on the brink of great change: The patriarch, known affectionately as Big Daddy, is dying of cancer. We meet Brick, Big Daddy’s favorite son, a former football star fallen prey to alcoholism. Brick’s rumored issues of being gay are part of his problem. Brick is married to Maggie, a sexually precocious nag who’d like nothing more than to sleep with her husband. Brick, however, will have none of it — he’s too busy marinating himself in booze.

FILM: 1958 Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives

TV REVIVAL: 1974 Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Lawrence Olivier

*This production is part of our Theatre Exchange Program with The Stables Theatre in Hastings, England, performing in the USA in February and then, in the UK, in June.