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The African-American Shakespeare Company explores the intricacies of the southern Pollitt family in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play opens at the Buriel Clay Theater at the African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street in San Francisco on January 26 and runs through February 17.
This well-known drama first opened on Broadway in 1955 and became a film in 1958. The 2008 revival featured an all black cast for the first time.
The story centers around Maggie Pollitt, a young Southern wife in a powerful Southern family doing everything she can to save her marriage to Brick, a one-time football star who continues to live, miserably, off his former glory. A series of explosive secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as Maggie and Brick join the rest of the Pollitts to celebrate family patriarch Big Daddy’s birthday, and it becomes clear that the Pollitt family has long constructed a web of deceit for itself.
“It was one of Williams’s favorite plays, and it’s most definitely one of my favorite plays. It’s about a young woman and her struggle to win back her estranged husband, while dealing with one seriously dysfunctional family. It’s sexy, messy, and, I think, incredibly moving,” said director L. Peter Callender.
Showtimes are 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $10 to $35.
For more information, call 1.800.838.3006 or visit www.African-AmericanShakes.org.
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