The play was called "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", by Tennessee Williams which was a serious drama piece performed by a group of students at Aiglon College Theatre. The characters in the play were excellent at their performance. The originally characters were: - Big Daddy Pollit - Big Mama Pollit ...
When Richard Brooks and James Poe turned the stage play Cat on a hot tin roofinto a film script, they focused mainly on the plot and fashioned his adaptation of Tennessee Williams' work after Hollywood romances that were popular in the 1950s. ... Drama in the stage Cat is created via dialogue. ... The film version of Cat looses over its original, but since Williams himself stated, "I wrote Cat for the money," he most likely agreed with the adjustments made to fit the play to a broader audience....
Throughout the course of the play, Brick's wife Maggie articulates a myriad of desires she wishes would come to fruition. When they do not, Maggie begins to fall to pieces, particularly because of Brick's frequent neglect and her unfortunate childlessness. Growing up Maggie was poor, and now that s...
