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Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"


  • Kennedy Fine Arts Building, Savannah State University (map)

The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble in partnership with Players By The Sea is proud to announce the closing show of our 2016/2017 season, the American classic, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.

MAY 12-14, 19-21, 26-28

Fri & Sat @ 8pm, Sun matinees @ 3pm.    

Call 912-232-0018 for reservations  

$25 General Admission

$20 Seniors, Students & Active Military

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in crisis, especially the husband Brick and wife Margaret (usually called Maggie or "Maggie the Cat"), and their interaction with Brick's family over the course of one evening gathering at the family estate in Mississippi. The party is to celebrate the birthday of patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt, "the Delta's biggest cotton-planter", and his return from the Ochsner Clinic with what he has been told is a clean bill of health. All family members (except Big Daddy and his wife, Big Mama) are aware of Big Daddy's true diagnosis: he is dying of cancer. His family has lied to Big Daddy and Big Mama to spare the aging couple from pain on the patriarch's birthday but, throughout the course of the play, it becomes clear that the Pollitt family has long constructed a web of deceit for itself.