CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Families look their best only in pictures. Reality is often worse.
So let’s be gracious and take a look at a family photo of the largest cotton grower family in the Mississippi Delta. We see a postured, determined father, an attentive mother, two handsome sons with beautiful wives and five cheerful, lively grandchildren – with a sixth on the way.
But what lies behind this facade?

A masterpiece of contemporary drama, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof tells the story of one night, during which the masks suddenly drop and all the lies and prejudices, secrets and suspicions that have hitherto held the family together become palpable. And then, instead of a beautiful idyll, the family picture begins to show the fear of admitting one’s sexual orientation, the closing of eyes to a child’s alcoholism, the hatred and grief that rolls down all the branches of this genealogical tree.

The play is a vivisection of the process of inheriting traumas, lies, (co)addictions and all the things we can get as a family inheritance, even if no one bequeaths it to us in their will.

„ NIE WIEM KIM SĄ „ONI”. NIE POTRAFIMY NAWET SIĘ DOMYŚLIĆ. MOGĄ BYĆ NASZYMI SĄSIADAMI. MOGĄ BYĆ DAWNYMI ZNAJOMYMI, KTÓRYCH KIEDYŚ NIECHCĄCY SKRZYWDZILIŚMY, BYŁYMI DZIEWCZYNAMI, CHŁOPAKAMI, MĘŻAMI, RODZINĄ ..."

Fragmenty powieści „Instytut” Jakuba Żulczyka/ (c) Jakub Żulczyk/Syndykat Autorów
– Agencja Literacka i Scenariuszowa oraz wydawnictwo Świat Książki, Warszawa 2016

Premiere

11th febuary 2023

Scene

The Small Stage

Duration

120 mins (no interval)

Suggested age

16+

The show features vulgarities, smoke and an alcohol theme.

Upcoming dates

31.01 / friday

7.00PM

“This text in the Opole staging shines like a diamond, disturbingly draws you in, narcotic even addictive from the fumes of that sultry air from the Mississippi River and from those unspoken words, which are here perhaps more important than those shouted, those vulgar, those thrown in passion or – those spoken out of helplessness.”

Rafał Turowski, rafalturow.ski

“‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, directed by R. Stępień certainly guarantees the viewer a whole range of sensations.”

Weronika Sagan, Gazeta Studencka

“‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is a story of exhausted people, very close to our state of mind today. Tennessee Willliams spoken in a whisper, stifled, and therefore even more piercing.”

Jacek Wakar, jacekwakar.pl

„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.

Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl