CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof tells the story of Maggie, “the Cat,” and her deteriorating marriage to Brick, a former athlete whose life has been overtaken by alcoholism. Maggie is trapped on her own “hot tin roof”—a place of frustration and unfulfilled desire—and struggles with growing desperation and anxiety as her marriage falls apart.

The couple travels to Brick’s family estate to celebrate his father’s sixty-eighth birthday, where they reunite with Brick’s older brother, Gooper, and his wife, Mae. In sharp contrast to Brick and Maggie, Gooper and Mae have built a conventional family life with five children and another on the way. Determined to secure the family inheritance, they are eager to prevent the estate from passing to Brick, whom they see as an unworthy heir.

Brick and Gooper’s parents, Big Mama and Big Daddy, own a thirteen-thousand-acre plantation. As the family gathers, the revelation that Big Daddy is terminally ill with cancer intensifies long-suppressed tensions, exposing hidden desires, old resentments, and painful truths. What begins as a birthday celebration gradually unfolds into a devastating family confrontation.

As a contemporary tragedy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof invites us to confront our deepest fears. The presence of death lays bare the lies hidden within every corner of the household, revealing vulnerable characters whose uncertainty, ambition, frustration, family favoritism, and desire for wealth collide in an emotionally charged portrait of a family in crisis.

Año2022

Clasificación+14

Duración2 horas

Co-production by La Santa and Teatro Municipal de Las Condes, 2022.

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Ficha Artística

Dramaturgy

Tennesse Williams

Director

Álvaro Viguera

Translation

Rodrigo Olavarría

Dramaturgical adaptation

Elisa Zulueta

Cast

Antonia Santa María / Guilherme Sepúlveda / Catalina Saavedra / Willy Semler / Elisa Zulueta / Ricardo Fernández

Cast Children in Off

Matilde Molina / Pastor Corvillón / Olaya Viguera / Olimpia Contador / Clara Viguera

Set and Lighting Design

Ramón López

Costume Design

Loreto Monsalve

Music Composition and Production

Luciano Correa

Directing and Production Assistant

Scarlett Carrasco

Assistant Set Designer and Stage Manager

Matías Segura

Wardrobe Assistant

Catalina Espinoza

Producción General

Antonia Santa María

Photographs

Nacho Rojas y Natalia Espina

Álvaro Viguera

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” offers us the opportunity to see a pivotal work in the history of world theater and to ask ourselves where human conflicts are heading. At times, it seems as though emptiness is the only visible horizon.

Álvaro Viguera

Álvaro Viguera

Director

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