![]() ![]() ![]() Its prevailing theme-deception, especially humanity’s susceptibility to self-deception-is timely in this era of “alternative facts” and the Big Lie. Director Joe Rosario’s staging affirms the enduring power of the play, which is not to say that this lumbering version does it justice.Ĭat is the most naturalistic of Williams’s major dramas. However, the current Ruth Stage revival is the first professional New York production that Williams’s literary estate has permitted Off-Broadway. During a long literary decline, he wrote a number of admirable plays, but even the best of those don’t measure up to his depiction of the Pollitts, a clan of nouveau riche Southern strivers squabbling over “twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile.”Ĭat has been back to Broadway five times in the 66 years since Elia Kazan’s original production closed. The playwright’s career took off with The Glass Menagerie in 1945, followed by A Streetcar Named Desire in 1949, and continued for 28 years after Cat, until his death in 1983. ![]() This landmine of a play premiered in 1955, a year that, in retrospect, seems the apex of Williams’s success. ![]() Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features roles that are (pardon the expression) catnip to adventurous actors. ![]()
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