Now Playing at the Coward Theatre Aldwych. Starring Adrian lester and James Earl Jones. Big Daddy Pollitt the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper his wife and children Brick an ageing football hero who has turned to drink and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed lies jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.
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