Title
Playwright
Tennessee Williams
Performance Dates
October 23-25, 1969
Creative Team
Director - Donald Streibig
Designer-Technical Director - Fred Thayer
Synopsis
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta" of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features motifs such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression and death. Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (2017, August 21). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:15, September 1, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof&oldid=796464377
Disciplines
Acting | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
Otterbein Theatre, Performing Arts, College Theatre, Drama
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1969). 1969-1970 Season. 3.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1969-1970/3