Patrick Robinson makes Royal Exchange debut in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will play on the Royal Exchange’s unique stage in a brand-new production from 24 March-29 April.

Almost 70 years on, this powerful play remains as relevant today as when it was first written, its universality radiates through Williams’ sharp observations of society, capitalism, gender and love, and through his gripping characters and their complex family dynamics.

The cast includes Bayo Gbadamosi (Barber Shop Chronicles, National Theatre) as Brick, Ntombizodwa Ndlovu (The Mountaintop, Royal Exchange) as Maggie ‘the cat’, Patrick Robinson (Sitting in Limbo, Casualty; BBC) as Big Daddy and Jacqui Dubois (The Wizard of Oz, Curve) as Big Mama.

The cast is completed by Danielle Henry, Bruce McGregor, Lucas Cheong Smith and Daniel Ward.  

It’s Big Daddy’s birthday and the family are home for one helluva celebration. Big Daddy is dying, except he doesn’t know it. But his family does, and so begins the ugly battle for succession. Dripping in ambitious flattery Gooper and his wife Mae are poised to win – but Maggie is ready to pounce. Viper-tonged, Maggie spits and fights like a cat on a hot tin roof while Brick sinks to the bottom of a bottle – waiting haplessly for the 'click’.  

The production is directed by Roy Alexander Weise, with design by Milla Clarke, lighting by Lizzie Powell, composition and sound by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite, musical direction by Tayo Akinbode, movement direction by Darren Pritchard, and casting by Helena Palmer CD.  

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