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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Editorial Review

Editorial Review

9 August-13 September 2008
Playhouse - The Arts Centre
100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

In 1955, Tennessee Williams dreamt up one seriously simmering family whose boiling-pot of trouble was fuelled by a whole lot of not-so-little or white lies. The Pollitt family, with Big Daddy at its helm, malfunction in spectacular chaos as the lies that bind them begin to unravel and reveal their ugly truths.

Williams' charming heroine Maggie 'the Cat' has married into the well-to-do family via the ex-football hero Brick, whose whisky-slugging ways stir demons of an unmentionable love as his scheming brother Gooper fixes his desires on the family fortune. But the one veiled truth that this family from Mississippi share is set to sting the worst, when they come together to reveal the ultimate secret to Big Daddy.

The Melbourne Theatre Company gathers a collection of thoroughly worthy participants for their production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, including Essie Davis, who was recognised with an Olivier Award for her performance of another of Williams' classic heroines when she portrayed Stella in an English production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 2003.

Chris Haywood, Martin Henderson, Gary Files, Deidre Rubenstein, Grant Piro and Rebekah Stone are directed in Williams' Southern classic by Gale Edwards.

Kat Harley