cat on a hot tin roof by tennessee williams

This does not absolve the playwright of his duty to observe and probe as clearly and deeply as he legitimately can: but it should steer him away from 'pat' conclusions, facile definitions which make a play just a play, not a snare for the truth of human experience. Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. I'm trying to catch the true quality of experience in a group of people, that cloudy, flickering, evanescent - fiercely charged! - interplay of live human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis. The bird that I hope to catch in the net of this play is not the solution of one man's psychological problem. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. With Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson. Or maybe it is only a single manifestation of it, not even the most important. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Directed by Richard Brooks. The fact that if it existed it had to be disavowed to 'keep face' in the world they lived in, may be at the heart of the 'mendacity' that Brick drinks to kill his disgust with. The thing they're discussing, timidly and painfully on the side of Big Daddy, fiercely, violently on Brick's side, is the inadmissible thing that Skipper died to disavow between them. His heart is accelerated his forehead sweat-beaded his breath becomes more rapid and his voice hoarse. In a suite at Big Daddy’s mansion on his estate, Brick showers and dries off as Margaret complains first about Gooper and Mae, and then about Brick’s behavior, which has involved quitting work, drinking, and breaking his ankle while attempting to jump hurdles on a high school track field. “Brick's detachment is at last broken through.

Cat on a hot tin roof by tennessee williams