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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Written by Tennessee Williams
Narrated by Edward Albee
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About this audiobook
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.
Author
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth and Night of the Iguana. He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason. He died in 1983 at the age of 72.
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Reviews for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Rating: 3.739130434782609 out of 5 stars
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23 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Fine play, but this recording is awful. The acts are cut short and abruptly start the following act, leaving out a lot of important dialog. Makes the play incomprehensible.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Demolishing play about what is really at stake in family relationships.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Please fix this audio. It is not the whole play, parts are repeated, huge parts are missing, and acts are not in the correct order. Makes zero sense.