Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in
crisis especially the husband and wife Brick and Maggie
and their interaction with Bricks 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 Deltas 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 he is dying of cancer. His family has lied to
Big Daddy and Big Mama to spare the aging couple from pain
on the patriarchs birthday but throughout the course of
the play it becomes clear that the Pollitt family has long
constructed a web of deceit for itself. Maggie determined
and beautiful has escaped a childhood of poverty to marry
into the wealthy Pollitts but finds herself unfulfilled.
The family is aware that Brick has not slept with Maggie
for a long time which has strained their marriage. Brick
an aging football hero infuriates her by ignoring his
brother Goopers attempts to gain control of the family
fortune. Bricks indifference and his drinking escalates
with the recent suicide of his friend Skipper. Maggie
fears that Bricks malaise will ensure that Gooper and his
wife Mae end up with Big Daddys estate. Through the
evening Brick Big Daddy and Maggie—and the entire
family—separately must face down the issues which they
have bottled up inside.