Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams
Jan. 17-Feb. 2, 2019

DIRECTED BY WILL BRITTON: In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is sombre, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favourite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of a most-beloved son.

CAST:
Brick - Damien Schaefer
Margaret - Anne-Sophie Grenier
Big Daddy - Michael Catlin
Big Mama - Penny Nash
Gooper - Garrett McCrea
Mae - Helen Bretzke
Reverend Tooker - David Slack
Doctor Baugh - Kevin Shipley

Children - Beau Cassibo, Annika Swackhammer, Tessa Vaillancourt