Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Director: Péter Valló
Director: Péter Valló
Translator: András Barabás
drama
Based on András Barabás' translation, the theatre version in Pesti Theatre made by: Krisztina Kovács
A marriage is falling apart, a family is in ruins, but cat-like Maggie is still clinging to the hope that everything can be put right, that she and her disillusioned husband might be able to find their way back to love and happiness. Maggie will do anything for her marriage: whether it's on the back of ice or a hot tin roof…
Maggie - Csenge Szilágyi
Brick - Bence Brasch
Big Daddy - Géza D. Hegedűs
Big Mama - Éva Igó
Mae - Radnay Csilla
Gooper - Péter Telekes
Reverend Tooker - Áron Zoltán
Doctor Baugh - Béla Gados
Polly - Annamária Bitó/ Lilien Deim
Sonny - Benjámin Gábor Hárs/ Bonca Viktor Hárs/Máté Mester
Set designer: JENNY HORVÁTH
Costume designer: MARI BENEDEK
Dramaturg: KRISZTINA KOVÁCS
Music Editor: GÁBOR HAJDU
Lighting designer: BALÁZS CSONTOS
Stunt expert: GYÖRGY KIVÉS
Production Assistant: VIKTÓRIA FEKETE
Prompter: HELGA JÁROLI
Stage manager: MIKLÓS KORMÁNYOSI
Assistant Director: EFSTRATIADU ZOÉ
Director: PÉTER VALLÓ
The performance is recommended for audiences over 14 years of age!
This production is brought to you by special permission of The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, through Hofra Ltd. (www.hofra.hu).
Reading rehearsal: Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.
Premiere: Saturday, March 11, 2023 7:00 p.m.
Tennessee Williams’ biography
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great
diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in 1940 for his play BATTLE OF ANGELS, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in 1955 for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Other plays include SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, CAMINO REAL, BABY DOLL, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, ORPHEUS DESCENDING, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, and THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY.
Tennessee Williams died in 1983.
University of the South’s biography
The University of the South, a national ranked liberal arts college and Episcopal seminary, is the beneficiary of the Tennessee Williams’ estate, including the copyrights to all his works. This gift was made as a memorial to Williams’ grandfather, the Reverend Walter E. Dakin, who studied at the University’s seminary in 1895. The Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund is used to support the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference, and the School of Letters. The Fund also supports scholarships for students who wish to pursue creative writing and fellowships which are granted annually to budding playwrights or authors. Those fellows include Ann Patchett, Claire Messud, Tony Early, and Mark Richard. The Tennessee Williams Center houses the University’s theater department, and a portion of the Fund supports the department and its theatrical productions.
Visit www.sewanee.edu for more information