Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/cat-on-hot-tin-roof-by-tennessee.html winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955 and the author’s personal favorite - 10 out of 10

 

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/cat-on-hot-tin-roof-by-tennessee.html winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955 and the author’s personal favorite

10 out of 10

 

 

Tennessee Williams was one of the greatest writers http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-streetcar-named-desire-by-tennessee.html but I cannot help but say that Thomas Lanier Williams III could have chosen a better name than Tennessee – this is to show how silly or stupid I am, rejecting the name of a whole state, just because they embrace Trump and other such follies over there, and it is the place where my sister and brother-in-law have had some unpleasant and even outright miserable experiences…

 

Cat on A Hot Tin roof could be best seen with Paul Newman – the lead actor in another stupendous film http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/05/sweet-bird-of-youth-by-tennessee.html based on a play by the same Tennessee Williams and an artist that was not just a phenomenal presence on stage or screen, but also a wonderful human being…William Goldman named only Newman and Clint Eastwood when asked about actors that are not self-obsessed and in search of acclaim – and Elizabeth Taylor in the principal roles

The fact that the play is set in the Mississippi delta would work against it in my case, as stated above, I am prejudiced against red states, I see the embrace of the cult leader Trump as not just objectionable, we reject murder and people like Stalin because ‘it is required by sanity as well as decency’ to quote one of the best minds that I know of, Magician Kingsley Amis http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/12/memoirs-by-kingsley-amis-author-of-take.html in his The King’s English

 

Looking on the internet I see that there is a version available there, with Natalie Wood in the main role of Maggie The Cat, the strong, determined, brave, clever, resilient, loving, perseverant, creative, outstanding woman that tries to persuade her husband, Brick, to stop drinking, or at least prevent him from becoming an irredeemable alcoholic, maybe somehow make him have sex with her, so that they have a child or maybe a few children, just as his brother, Gooper, and his souse, Mae, have – they have a sixth on the way.

In the retrograde view of that South (in particular, but seeing the changes they bring to various laws, from abortion to ‘anti- Woke’, we could argue that they live in the past even today) a wife that does not have progenitors is pretty much useless – Big Daddy, the patriarch of the family, who is more or less a benign figure, but with very dark sides, asks his son, Brick, why doesn’t he get rid of Maggie, if they do not get along, as if a woman can be dispend of, if there are no children, and the man is ‘superior’ somehow…

The situation is much more complicated, for Brick seems to be gay –Tennessee Williams was homosexual and "Everything in his life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is in his life’ was said of him – and thus, all the efforts on display would not make Maggie succeed, unless of course, we would conclude that the man is actually bisexual – which he could be, seeing as he married the woman – or remind ourselves that ‘gender is the biggest lie of civilization’ and use a different perspective…

 

In the Co-Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize Girl, Woman, Other http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo.html the author, Bernardine Evaristo explains that gender fluidity is a more accurate view of sexuality, we have Two Spirits, non-gender and this is changing from one minute to the next, and therefore, Brick could have been infatuated with Skipper – or vice versa – but that was a changing landscape, and then there is a chance or more for The Cat.

She is On a Hot Tin Roof and needs to jump, because she is infuriated with the continuous push from Mae and Gooper, who want to inherit the huge property, once Big Daddy is dead, and alas, the old man has cancer, something he does not know, at least for a long time, and seeing as Brick is depressed, addicted to alcohol, the chances seem to be on the side of the family with five, soon to be six children

 

There are many lies, and a paternal, patriarchal society, Big Daddy has a fit of fury and comes down on his wife and others, saying he is fine and will take over again, they have been leading the show for too long, thinking he is very ill (which he is), but now that the doctor says he just has irritable intestine or something similar, he is back at his place, and wants to push Brick to tell what is wrong, stop drinking and for that he kicks his son around, to have an honest conversation about him and Maggie…

Gooper and Mae have the room next door and they keep spying, telling Big Mama (and then she informs her husband) that she sleeps on the bed and he on the couch and hence, there will be no heirs there, and that is a situation that old fashioned, retrograde Big Daddy cannot tolerate, if Maggie is the cause, why is his son still with her, what is this click he needs to hear in his head, the alcohol has tormented his mind…

 

Traditions, exaggerations, big fortunes and the greed that is associated with it, addiction, lust, lies, homosexuality, and much more are here in the play, or just hinted at – sexuality was not to be taken head on at that time, when I think gay people, LGBTQ plus and I think these days something else has been added to these acronyms, but I am not sure what and I am too lazy to look it up, for who is taking the effort to read this far has the vitality to find it on the net, if curious – Tennessee Williams was really one of the best http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-night-of-iguana-by-tennessee.html

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html