Tennessee Williams Explored: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
The Kennedy Center presents a new production of Williams’ landmark play of a dysfunctional Southern family.
- Jun 12 - Jul 4, 2004
- Eisenhower Theater
- Approx 3 hours
- $25.00 - $75.00
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About the Program
Charged with verbal pyrotechnics, savage humor, and sexual friction, this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama is Tennessee Williams’s explosive portrait of a Mississippi family jeopardized by hypocrisy, avarice, and hidden desires. In Big Daddy’s house, nothing is as it seems. The overbearing millionaire is dying of cancer, yet he firmly believes he’s in perfect health. His oldest son Gooper and daughter-in-law Mae secretly scheme to secure their inheritance. Meanwhile, his favorite son Brick, a dejected former football star, climbs inside a whisky bottle for solace, threatening his marriage to the sensuous Maggie. As Maggie “the Cat” fights to win back her husband and preserve the family fortune, Big Daddy learns the painful truth about his illness—and the shocking secret behind Brick’s sullen and abusive behavior.Part of Tennessee Williams Explored
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Additional Resources
About the Kennedy Center Tennessee Williams Explored Series
About the Kennedy Center Theater Series
18th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, March 24-28, 2004 : Enjoy a feast of lively panel talks, master classes, theater performances, celebrity interviews, food and music events, a scholars conference, the Stanley & Stella Shouting Contest, and more, in the city Tennessee Williams called his "spiritual home."
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Reviews and Articles
The Washington Post, Variety, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, WRC-TV, WGMS Radio The Washington Post calls it “vibrant.” Variety hails the Kennedy Center’s “high-voltage version” for its “standout performances.” And other critics are calling the production “forceful,” “taut,” and “explosive.” Read More...
The Washington Post "The Kennedy Center will announce today that veteran actresses Sally Field, Patricia Clarkson and Dana Ivey have been signed to play three of the theater's best-known female characters as part of the center's 2004 Tennessee Williams festival." Read More...
The Washington Post "Director Mark Lamos will stage Tennessee Williams's 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' at the Kennedy Center this summer..." Read More...
USA Today "It could be argued that the hottest playwright in the country right now is a man who has been dead for more than 20 years." Read More...
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