![]() ![]() A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. Maggie’s problem is that Brick doesn’t care he’s too busy looking for clarity at the bottle of a bottle, hiding from self-knowledge after the death of his “true friend”, Skipper.įor this new production, Roy Alexander Weise, one of the Royal Exchange’s two joint artistic directors, relocates the action to the present day, realises it with a predominantly black cast and gives it a symbolic setting that enlarges the scope of Williams’s naturalistic original. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Jump to Edit Summaries Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. Maggie lies about being pregnant just because she wants to get more attention than big daddy just because he’s got cancer. Maggie, “the cat”, is equally determined that her husband, Brick, will inherit. 1) Cooper and Mae attempt to get big mama to sign a preliminary will and they try so hard but she never will sign it because she don’t think he will go anytime soon. Their eldest son, Gooper, and Gooper’s wife, Mae, are determined that they and their five children will inherit Big Daddy’s millions and his Mississippi plantation. Big Daddy doesn’t know it yet, but he is dying. ![]() T wo sides of a family battle over land in Tennessee Williams’s 1955 Pulitzer prize-winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (produced as a film in 1958, with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman). ![]()
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