🧵👇 /eNSdfv1OBA- Royal Exchange Theatre March 29, 2023 Sending best wishes to all the cast, crew & creatives on CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF this evening! This time, Weise clashes contemporary issues in a contemporary setting. The Novella Theatre’s cast of 2009 also depicted a black Pollitt family, but they remained within the Deep South of the 1950s. The constant battle over Big Daddy’s will within the family is as relevant today as it was in the 1950s. It is unconventional, conflicting and even more chaotic. The predominantly black cast uniquely inhabit the stage as new capitalist plantation owners. The alcoholic Brick (Bayo Gbadamosi) grapples with his love for his wife Maggie while Big Daddy (Patrick Robinson) meanders to his tragic end, unaware of his crippling cancer.
The play follows Williams’ traditional narrative where the Pollitt family are intertwined in a network of ‘mendacity’. And a record of R&B hits thrust the audience into 21st-century Mississippi Delta. Maggie (Ntombizodwa Ndlovu) steps into The Royal Exchange’s round. Roy Alexander Weise’s take on the Tennessee Williams classic is a vivid interrogation of truth and mortality where the director’s own complex relationship with the play is front and centre.
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