Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Unity Theatre

Jan. 31 - Feb. 17, 2019
Thursdays-Sundays

In the 1950’s, in a plantation house in the Mississippi Delta, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of the patriarch Big Daddy but despite the festivities, the mood is somber. A number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her their marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Unity Theatre