Cat on a hot tin roof.
Cat on a hot tin roof plot summary.
The drama in three acts follows an afternoon in the life of the dysfunctional pollitt family as they celebrate their patriarch s sixty fifth birthday.
In the opening scene brick pollitt paul newman a former high school football star spends a drunken night jumping hurdles on a school athletic field at eastern mississippi high school in a tragic attempt to recapture his glory days.
While undressing maggie complains that his brother gooper and wife mae have been having their monstrous children perform for big daddy incessantly reminding him of their own childlessness.
First performed in 1955 cat on a hot tin roof is a pulitzer prize winning play by american playwright thomas lanier williams iii best known by his pen name tennessee williams.
Brick is taking a shower in the bedroom he shares with his wife maggie.
He falls and breaks his right ankle.