Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811205672 (0811205673)
Publish date: January 1st 1975
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages no: 173
Edition language: English
A Mississippi plantation on a sultry evening and a dysfunctional family with all its secrets and untold truths. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is one of these plays that I would much rather have watched on the stage than have read it, because I imagine it must be even more powerful while being performed on a...
Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?...Something's left out of this story. What did you leave out?This was probably the first book on my to-read list I have added. It is enormously good, and then suddenly stops being that enormously good-I've read the three endings, and have issues with each. ...
On a sultry summer evening family meets and secrets are revealed...so far, so a zillion other plays. Here, it's not really what the secrets are that's interesting, it's who the characters are and where the author's sympathies lie. The first act slowly winds up to a very dramatic finish and tension...
"Living with someone you love can be lonelier - than living entirely alone!- Margaret, Act 1"Life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is - all - over..."- Margaret, Act ISo here is Tennessee Williams coming out, with his customary rage and insight. And darkness.Once again,...
This was my first exposure to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - I had heard of it, but never seen or read the play until now. I was impressed with Williams' ability to hit on such serious topics without the overall work seeming preachy and over-serious. Unlike most plays I've read, the cast list did not inclu...
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