Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a three-act play written by Tennessee Williams; an adaptation of his 1952 short story "Three Players of a Summer Game", he wrote the play between 1953 and 1955. One of Williams's more famous 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 written using nonstandard spelling intended to represent accents of the Southern United States. The original production starred Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara.
| Written by | Tennessee Williams |
| Characters | Margaret, Brick, Big Daddy, Big Mama, Mae/"Sister Woman", Gooper/"Brother Man", Doctor Baugh, Reverend Tooker |
| Date premiered | March 24, 1955 |
| Place premiered | Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | Death, mendacity, relationships, loneliness, homosexuality, alcoholism |
| Genre | Drama, Southern Gothic |
| Setting | Brick and Margaret's room on the Pollitt plantation in Mississippi |
Over Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Based on the Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, the film centers around an alcoholic ex-football player whose reunion with his dying father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both parties.
Prestaties van Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Director Richard Brooks co-wrote the screenplay with James Poe. The movie was one of the top-ten box office hits of 1958.
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Plays by Tennessee Williams.. Plays set in Mississippi.. Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning works.. LGBT-related plays.. American plays adapted into films.
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