


The play’s central premise is as follows: Big Daddy (Patrick Robinson) is dying of cancer and everybody knows it, except, that is, Big Daddy and his wife Big Mama (Jacqui Dubois).

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the latest production to occupy Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, is a toothless, messy, and frustrating affair which takes big swings but, more often than not, misses its mark.Īdapted from Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof depicts the Pollitts, a wealthy planter family in the Mississippi Delta, as they gather for patriarch Big Daddy’s birthday celebrations.
