• The Play Podcast - 091 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams

  • Jan 28 2025
  • Length: 56 mins
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The Play Podcast - 091 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams

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  • Episode 091: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

    Host: Douglas Schatz
    Guest: Arifa Akbar

    Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.

    Tennessee Williams’s third great play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a blistering drama of family conflict and repressed sexuality. The play opened on Broadway in 1955 to rapturous reviews, and the film that followed with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman was a box-office hit, despite its egregious watering down of the play’s sexual trauma and family strife.

    As we record this episode a stunning new production of the play is on at the Almeida Theatre in London, and I am delighted to talk about this classic with Arifa Akbar, the Guardian newspaper’s chief theatre critic.
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