Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Pulitzer Prize Winner
February 6 - March 3, 2019
“When I write I don’t aim to shock people, and I’m surprised when I do. But I don’t think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.”
SIZZLING COLLISION OF TRUTH AND MENDACITY
The centerpiece of The Stage’s “Explosively Charged” Season 36 is the revered American Classic by one of the country’s most celebrated playwrights, Tennessee Williams. ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is a fiery collision of generations, mendacity, sexuality, and the ties that bind. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes us on a steamy jaunt -- filled with rich southern humor -- through bourbon-soaked lies on a search for the truth.
Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece sizzles in this hot tale of the ties that bind. On a steamy night on the Mississippi Delta the Pollitt Plantation swarms with angst as the family gathers to celebrate the 65th birthday of their hot-tempered patriarch, Big Daddy. The heat begins to rise as the Southern family is thrust into crisis when Big Daddy announces he must choose one of his sons to inherit his estate. As Brick, his favorite favorite son, and his wife Maggie struggle to guard their demons the rest of the family claws at any opportunity to topple their dynasty. With the future of the family in peril-- accusations swirl, ulterior motives are exposed and mendacity reigns.
Cast
*Member Actors Equity Association
Creative Team
Lee Sankowich | Director
Jack D. Myles* | Stage Manager
Giulio Perrone | Set Design
Ashley Garlick | Costume Design
Michael Johnson | Light Design
Steve Schoenbeck | Sound Design
Robert Pickering | Scenic Painter
Caitlin Elizabeth | Props
Yvonne Vo | Props
Kimily Conkle | Dialect Coach
Will Springhorn Jr. | Fight Choreographer
Media
About the play- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Mendacity is a system that we live in, liquor is one way out an' death's the other” - Brick
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, potentially one of the most descriptive titles in history, immediately and viscerally sets the tone of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play.