Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams
directed by Lisa Peterson
On the heels of the explosive A Streetcar Named Desire, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic receives its second-ever Guthrie staging this season. It's the 65th birthday of wealthy southern patriarch Big Daddy Pollit, who is unknowingly dying of cancer, and his sons Gooper and Brick have arrived on the scene of the family's Mississippi plantation in hopes of inching closer to their $10 million inheritance. Yet as Brick descends into alcoholism following the death of a college friend, his fragile relationship with his wife Maggie continues to crumble, and the lies and illusion become too much for the family to bear.
Venue: Wurtele Thrust