Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Author: Tennessee Williams

Narrator: Edward Albee

Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/27/2019


Synopsis

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sxuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sxuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years―the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003-04 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams' essay "Person-to-Person," Williams' notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author's life. One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.

About Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.


Reviews

Goodreads review by māris on April 21, 2023

viņš lugas raksta kā dzeju un kā stāstus absolūti brīnišķigi cat on a hot tin roof noteikti ir spēcīgākā no šīm trim......more

Goodreads review by Steve on April 19, 2019

It was more than I expected. Treatments of avarice, repressed homosexuality, dishonesty, cruelty. I was surprised by the hard hitting nature of the work given the era. Reading through the 20th century Pulitzer drama winners shows how edgy and realistic drama had become with that passing of time.......more