A scorching new production of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer prize-winning classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof arrives at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from October 30 to November 29.
This bold new staging is directed by James Dacre and features original music by Charle Cave from award-winning band White Lies.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is one of the stage’s most seductive evocations of the Deep South. This powerful family drama sees Maggie the Cat and her husband Brick return to his home on the night of patriarch and cotton tycoon Big Daddy’s 65th birthday.
Life-altering secrets are revealed and tensions explode as they scramble to secure their part of his inheritance.
The cast includes Ian Charleson Award nominee Charles Aitken, whose credits include Sweet Bird Of Youth at The Old Vic, as Brick, Kim Criswell, who was nominated for an Olivier award for Annie Get Your Gun in 1993, as Big Mama, Victoria Elliott (last seen at the Exchange in Two and whose TV credits include Hebburn) as Mae, Charleson Award winner Mariah Gale, whose many credits with the Royal Shakespeare Company include Juliet, Ophelia, Miranda and Portia, as Maggie and Daragh O’Malley, best known for his role in long-running television series Sharpe, as Big Daddy.
Dacre directed an acclaimed production of The Accrington Pals at the Exchange last year.
He said: "I'm looking forward to working again with many of the team. This play, written on the eve of the sexual and civil rights revolution, is one of America's greatest.
"The Exchange—as intimate and as grand as the story itself—is the perfect location for an incendiary masterpiece.”