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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Almeida Theatre · London

Premiered 1955 at Morosco Theatre

A family birthday becomes a reckoning as a troubled marriage, a looming inheritance and years of buried truths collide under one roof.

Drama
The story

Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play centres on Brick and Maggie Pollitt as they join Brick's family to celebrate his father Big Daddy's birthday. With Brick retreating into alcohol and their marriage under strain, the gathering becomes a battle over love, loyalty, inheritance and the stories the family tells itself.

In the room

A tense, dialogue-driven family drama full of shifting alliances and confrontations. Williams moves between an intimate portrait of a damaged marriage and a wider struggle inside the Pollitt family, exploring grief, desire, denial and the pressure to live up to other people's expectations.

Good fit if you like

American classics, psychologically intense family dramas, complicated marriages, morally messy characters and plays where long-held resentments gradually force their way into the open.

Details

From 10 Dec 2024

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Cast & crew

Cast(9)
Creative & crew(13)
Composer
Angus MacRae
Set designer
Chloe Lamford
Costume designer
Moi Tran
Lighting designer
Lee Curran
Sound designer
Carolyn Downing
Associate director
Justina Kehinde
Casting director
Julia Horan CDG
Dialect coach
Michaela Kennen
Fight director
Sam Lyon-Behan
Children's Casting Director
Amy Beadel CDG
Costume supervisor
Cáit Canavan

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