This definitive edition also includes Williams&rsquoi essay “Person-to-Person,” Williams’ notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author’s life. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years-the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003–2004 season. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. The radio play, which will be produced by independent company Ladbroke Productions, is being billed as a highlight of the broadcaster's drama schedule and will run alongside a production of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac starring Kenneth Branagh" (The Stage Newspaper: Thursday 17 January 2008)Ĭat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. It will also star Alison Steadman as Mae, Clive Carter as Cooper, Marcus D'Amico as Brick and Elizabeth McGovern as Maggie.
The two-hour production of the complete first version of Williams' play will be broadcast on March 16 on BBC Radio 3 and is being directed by Andy Jordan. Joss Ackland and Gemma Jones have been lined up to star as Big Daddy and Big Mama in a major radio production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. "Radio 3 gathers all-star cast for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof With Polly Dartford, Christopher Earley, Zara Mandel, Tristan Pegg Hypocrisy, greed and secret passions threaten to tear apart a dysfunctional family as they fight over a dying patriarch's millions. An adaptation of Tennessee Williams's classic 1950s drama set in the plantations of the American Deep South.
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