As one of the most explosive plays of the mid-20th-century, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof remains a frequently revived, essential play today. Cat won the Pultizer Prize for drama in 1955 and is a tragedy about a dying, wealthy cotton planter and the contest for inheritance between his heirs in 1950s Mississippi. Tennessee Williams's drama is notable for the poetry of its dialogue and the volcanic energy of major characters Big Daddy, Brick, and Margaret; it offers today's audiences a window into the cultural conventions and paranoid politics of the post-war period in the US, a reflection on the turbulence of American history, and a still-powerful meditation on mortality, social convention, desire and veracity.
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