Published: May 03, 2019
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
Tennessee Williams’ play is supposed to be exhausting, but this new show smothers emotion with its pyrotechnics
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens with Maggie singing a melancholy song while her husband Brick, the Southern football star turned drunk, showers. He is naked in a tiny glass box while water pulsates down. It’s an intoxicating beginning.
And yet that shower – while clever (the box is claustrophobic; so is Brick’s life; we get it) – ends up being just one of many production tricks that feel laboured and unnecessary.
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2ZUjRox
via
0 Comments