Maggie: I’ll win, alright. Brick: Win what? What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? Maggie: Just staying on it, I guess.... as long as she can.
The Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” comes to the DeSoto stage starting Oct. 17. Director Jeremy Cothran said a talented cast of local actors is up to the challenge of performing such a popular and thematically complex show. The Tennessee Williams classic won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1955.
The story revolves around a Southern family in crisis and in particular, the turbulent relationship of a wife and husband — Maggie “the cat” and Brick Pollitt — and their interaction with Brick’s family over the course of one evening at the family estate in Mississippi. A film adapation of the play in 1958 starred Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor and earned several Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.
“The show deals with an average American family in the 50s,” Cothran said. It opens in the middle of a family crisis. Big Daddy is dying of cancer and the show opens at his birthday party. Everyone has gathered for the event and half of them know he’s dying but want to keep it from him. “But during the family crisis there’s also marital strife between Maggie and Brick.”
With themes of deception, alcoholism, the decay of Southern society and other underlying subjects, the play poses quite a challenge for any cast. Cothran said this local group is rehearsed and ready to bring the show to Broad Street.
“The pressure is there,” he said. “When you put on such a well-known show there’s always pressure to live up to that standard. But we hope to add some originality and rekindle memories for people of the first time they experienced this script.”
There are some adult themes as well as some adult language in the show, but the production is open to all ages. Rome Little Theatre’s production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens Oct. 17 and runs Oct. 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26. Show times are 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday shows begin at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. Group rates are available. Visit online at www.romelittletheatre.com or call 706-295-7171 to make reservations.
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