Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, one of Tennessee Williams’s more famous works and his personal favorite, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Central Park Players is pleased to open their 2024-2025 season, Generations, with this powerful piece.
Performance Dates
- October 4, 5, 11, & 12 @ 7:30 PM
About Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
In a plantation house, the Pollitt family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds.
Maggie, Big Daddy’s daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she’s finally become pregnant by Big Daddy’s favorite son, Brick, but Brick won’t cooperate in Maggie’s plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son.
Contains strong language and mature themes.