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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: By Tennessee Williams - Coggle Diagram
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: By Tennessee Williams
Design
Hair/Make-up
Lighting
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k9et7A-21KmTvy6qQB62vA27IwfbKkepghAHDHpMmLk/edit#slide=id.gaa21655882_0_0
Sound
Costume
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vOkdgYUqHgwg2nu99nyamHxXa2yOdF7q12t_RQirqoA/edit#slide=id.g912cbfd54f_0_0
Staging/Set
Chosen set design: In-the-round
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WBSopFcAmFBN8F6Ad5ZM2fdBY3UrZ9UF5-GHwpRvSkQ/edit#slide=id.p
Moodboard
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16P0e-A-xBVj9_vOi226WdU8S_bVeGqMSbBENmEuUeoM/edit#slide=id.p
Directing
Overview
Characters
Brick
Son to Big Daddy and Big Mama, husband to Maggie, younger brother by eight years to Gooper, brother-in-law to Mae
Maggie
Wife to Brick, sister in law to Mae and Gooper, daughter-in-law to Big Daddy and Big Mama
Mae
Wife to Gooper, mother to children, sister in law to Maggie and Brick, Daughter in law to Big Daddy and Big Mama
Gooper
Older brother by eight years to Brick, son to Big Daddy and Big Mama, brother-in-law to Maggie, husband to Mae
Big Daddy
Owner of estate/fortune, husband of Big Mama, father of Brick and Gooper, father-in-law to Maggie and Mae
Big Mama
Mother to Brick and Gooper, wife to Big Daddy, mother-in-law to Mae and Maggie
Reverend Tooker
Town's Reverend
Doctor Baugh
Family Doctor, tends to Big Daddy during his treatment for cancer
Children
Children to Mae and Gooper, five children with a sixth on the way (Buster, Dixie, Polly, Sonny, Trixie Pollitt). Are referred to as 'no-neck-monsters' by Maggie in the opening scene
Context
First aired on the 24th of March 1955 on Broadway
The emergence of the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.
Homosexuality was illegal and frowned apon
If anyone 'came out' as gay, they would be prosecuted as a misfit, a threat to democracy and decency, and as a Communist
During the Cold War against Communist Russia (1947 - 1991)
Themes
Alcoholism
Homosexuality
Sex and Fertility
Mendacity
Acting
Character Motivations
Live Theatre
Blithe Spirit