具体描述
A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is publish ed in Penguin Modern Classics.'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.
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##第二幕对the difficulty of communication的展现太神了……mendacity! Plot 太差靠台词救，第二幕救回来了第三幕两个版本都不行。
##Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's the other……
##No need for Act 3 but after the climax there’s got to be a decent ending (was it really decent?
##作者版引而不发，比百老汇版有味
##自以为比streetcar会更有tension。And once again sensing the lack of communication under fast paced, breathless, overwhelming dialogues. 喜欢original script，结尾多有意思啊
##作者版引而不发，比百老汇版有味
##No need for Act 3 but after the climax there’s got to be a decent ending (was it really decent?
##cat on a hot tin roof，好比喻也经不起反复用，灵气受折磨。 Broadway Version结局不如原版，强求人物发狠，突变太多。Williams的解释是，"Brick should undergo some apparent mutation"，但想没想过，醉鬼真的只希望跪在烂摊子里流点眼泪，他不要变，要酒。非把玻璃裂痕都熔了，捏作新玻璃，说这是人的崛起，之后再不会碎，以为这么更聪明。殊不知最好的就是那一个碎，全毁了最聪明。
##Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's the other……