Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Author: Tennessee Williams
First Performance: 1955, New York
Published: 1955; rev. 1975
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Bed-sittingroom in Big Daddy's home, Mississippi Delta, 1950s
Cast: 7m, 3f, 4 children (2m, 2f)
Big Daddy Pollitt, a millionaire cotton-plantation owner, has reached his 65th birthday, and his two sons Gooper and Brick have come to celebrate it with their respective wives Mae and Margaret (‘Maggie the Cat’). Only Big Daddy and his wife Big Mama are unaware that Big Daddy is dying of cancer. Gooper and Mae, who have five children, are anxious to secure the inheritance for themselves and sneer at Brick and Margaret's childless marriage. While Gooper is a successful lawyer, Brick is a former football hero and commentator, who has now taken to the bottle. Part of his...
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