| Written by | Directed by |
|---|---|
| Tennessee Williams | Doug A. Mishler |
| Evening Showings | Matinee Showings |
| Jan 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 at 7:30pm | Jan 8, 15, 22 at 2:00pm |
All performances are held at our new theater, located at 147 E. Pueblo St., just off Wells Avenue.
“…a play of tremendous dramatic impact…enormous theatrical power.” —NY Post.
“…Williams has fashioned his most compelling characters.” —NY Journal
“This is a gripping and intensely moving play, a play that can hold its own with anything written in the post-O’Neill American theater…Brilliant scenes, scenes of sudden and lashing dramatic power, break open…There is, indeed, no one moment in the evening when the stinging accuracy of Mr. Williams’ ear for human speech is not compellingly in evidence…Mr. Williams is the man of our time who comes closest to hurling the actual blood and bone of life onto the stage; he is also the man whose prose comes closest to being an incisive natural poetry.” —NY Times.
THE STORY: Atkinson’s review in the NY Times called it “a stunning drama…It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.” Atkinson went on to write, “In a plantation house, the members of the family are celebrating the sixty-fifth birthday of the Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The tone is gay. But the mood is somber. For a number of old evils poison the gaiety—sins of the past, greedy hopes for the future, a desperate eagerness not to believe in the truths that surround them…CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is a delicately wrought exercise in human communication. His characters try to escape from the loneliness of their private lives into some form of understanding. The truth invariably terrifies them. That is one thing they cannot face or speak…As the expression of a brooding point of view about life, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is limpid and effortless. As theatre, it is superb.”
Cast:
Big Daddy: Gary Cremeans
Big Mama: Terri Gray
Brick: Bradford D. Ka’ai’ai
Maggie: Elizabeth Jernigan
Mae: Kristina Charpentier
Gooper: Bryce Keil
Reverend: David Tolles
Doctor: Cameron Murri
