Bookmarx October Book Discussion: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Schedule
Thu Oct 24 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
BookMarx | Springfield, MO
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*MOVED TO OCTOBER DUE TO CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF BEING BACKORDER*The last week of September is Banned Books Week, so for our OCTOBER book discussion, we will be discussing a work that has been challenged and restricted, Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". (And since it's now the school year, and some people will have less time for leisure reading, we will be reading a play).
The discussion will take place on Thursday October 24 at 6 pm.
Description from New Directions:
"The sensuality and excitement of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of two brothers (and their wives) vying for the inheritance of their dying father, Big Daddy, amid a whirlwind of sexuality untethered (in the person of Maggie the Cat), and the burden of love repressed (in the person of her husband, Brick Pollitt). Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—this version was prepared by Williams for the American Shakespeare Festival production in 1974, with all the changes that satisfied the playwright’s desire for a definitive text. Edward Albee, one of America’s greatest living playwrights (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, Three Tall Women, The Play About the Baby) as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, has written a concise and perceptive introduction from a playwright’s perspective. This edition also includes a short chronology of the author’s life and works; Williams’ essay “Author and Director: A Delicate Situation"; as well as the insightful “Swinging a Cat,” in which Williams scholar Brian Parker describes the various versions, rewrites, and changes Williams made to Cat over more than twenty years."
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Where is it happening?
BookMarx, 325 E Walnut St, Springfield, MO 65806-2358, United States,Springfield, MissouriEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
