Curve, Leicester
An imaginative staging of Tennessee Williams’ classic foregrounds the southern drama’s roots in Greek tragedy
One of the catchiest titles in the theatrical canon will always draw audiences to Tennessee Williams’ 1955 play set during a cataclysmic 65th birthday party for a Mississippi plantation owner. Anyone lured to find out what Cat on a Hot Tin Roof means should leave satisfied with this imaginative staging.
Anthony Almeida, young winner of the Royal Theatrical Support Trust’s Sir Peter Hall director award, follows Ivo van Hove and Yaël Farber’s work on Williams’s contemporary, Arthur Miller, by emphasising the deep ancient Greek roots of American drama of this period.