You will rarely find me referencing Tennessee Williams b/c I had two destructive encounters with The Glass Menagerie in school.
Hated it. Twice: two different schools, two different grades, same fucking lousy depressing play.
You couldn't give me Shakespeare? I had to get taught Williams's worst play TWICE in TWO YEARS?
So. ahem. I am not a fan of his.
But today I thought it might be interesting to watch one of his better plays, about Maggie the Cat:
I don't pretend that this is the best version of the play...it's just the best version I could find the whole thing of on YouTube.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. It was produced by the Playwrights' Company. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite,[1] the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta"[2] of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death. Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States. The original production starred Barbara BelGeddes, Burl Ives, and Ben Gazzara. The play was adapted as a motion picture of the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, respectively. Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974. This has been the version used for most subsequent revivals, which have been numerous.
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Part 3 wouldn't work for me: