Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: 'It’s about the lies we tell ourselves and the pain we endure'
Most stereotypes of the American South have their genesis in a Tennessee Williams’ play. Blanche DuBois, from Streetcar Named Desire, is the quintessential debutante, hopelessly relying on the kindness of strangers, whose overwrought naivety has served as a template for many characters since. Meanwhile, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, there’s Big Daddy.
It’s not easy to do a play like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, from one of America’s most famous playwrights, differently. Williams’ plays are a fixture of Western culture; his characters are emblematic of the American South, a place and people caught between the imagined saccharine splendours of the past and the grosser realities of the present. Everybody talks like they're chewing molasses. It’s always a late-summer evening, and tempers are wrought by heat.
It is in them that the power of the play can be felt, and that the production’s creative revisions, including to the script, feel meaningful. Even poignant. .
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