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Press Release: February 4, 2010
Dillard University Theatre Department Presents:
Tennessee Williams’ Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
Directed by Ray Vrazel, Theatre Faculty
And Starring Theatre Faculty:
Cortheal Clark, Theatre Department Techincal Director, as Big Daddy Pollitt
And Sherrie Marina, Theatre Department Chair, as Big Mama Pollitt
Cast:
Brick Rodney Graham
Maggie Ralshella Washington
Mae Kari Cojoe
Gooper Chris Robinson
Lacey DeShawn Dabney
Sookey Tedrine Glover
Doctor Baugh Kevin Perry
Rev. Tooker Josef Pons
Big Daddy Cortheal Clark
Understudy for Big Daddy Ian Lawrence
Big Mamma Sherrie Marina
Understudy for Big Mamma Yashika Collins
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Press Release: February 4, 2010
Dillard University Theatre Department Presents:
Tennessee Williams’ Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
Directed by Ray Vrazel, Theatre Faculty
And Starring Theatre Faculty:
Cortheal Clark, Theatre Department Techincal Director, as Big Daddy Pollitt
And Sherrie Marina, Theatre Department Chair, as Big Mama Pollitt
Cast:
Brick Rodney Graham
Maggie Ralshella Washington
Mae Kari Cojoe
Gooper Chris Robinson
Lacey DeShawn Dabney
Sookey Tedrine Glover
Doctor Baugh Kevin Perry
Rev. Tooker Josef Pons
Big Daddy Cortheal Clark
Understudy for Big Daddy Ian Lawrence
Big Mamma Sherrie Marina
Understudy for Big Mamma Yashika Collins
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams' third significant play (following The Glass Managerie in 1944 and A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947), was a huge commercial success, running for 694 performances on Broadway. It won Williams his third New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and his second Pulitzer Prize (his first being for Streetcar). Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, has all of the earmarks of Williams' unique dramas: his emotionally biographical themes of ambivalence in sexual orientation, disaffection, and difficulty in maintaining intimate relationships. The play centers on a young man's disaffection and descent into alcoholism following the death of his college friend, and his wife's efforts to insure that he takes over his dying father's plantation. The powerful second act, in which the father, Big Daddy, confronts his alcoholic son, Brick, about the nature of his relationship with his friend, Skipper, is considered a hallmark of contemporary drama—Williams at his best. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof takes place entirely in the bed-sitting room of the Pollitt plantation home in the Mississippi Delta on the occasion of Big Daddy Pollitt's sixty-fifth birthday. The plantation once belonged to a pair of “bachelors”, who Big Daddy had once worked for as an overseer, now he owns the plantation and most of the land for miles around, having spent his life building it into a dynastic empire, "twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile."
In presenting this African American version of the play, Dillard University Theatre proudly showcases its faculty and students in this production that is timed to coincide with the 24th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, March 24-28, 2010.
Opening night is Friday, March 19, at 7:30 PM.
Production Dates are:
March 19 & 20 at 8 PM and March 21 at 3 PM
March 26 & 27 at 8 PM and March 28 at 3 PM
Note: There will be a “soft opening”(dollar night dress rehearsal) on Thursday, March 18 at 8 PM for Dillard University students, faculty and staff.
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