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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins. (read review)

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Lord Manleigh
  • Rated 4 stars

“Williams had another huge success with this one. It's a tasty stew, spiced with familial law of the jungle (Hellman's Little Foxes morphed into No Neck Monsters?) and "mendacity," repressed homosexuality and sexual frustration...Big Daddy and Maggie are two of TW's greatest creations.”

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  • Rated 3.625 stars
  

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