Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. Williams wrote the play on the terrace of Sun Beach bar in Tangiers/Morocco. It was produced by the Playwrights' Company. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the \"plantation home in the Mississippi Delta\" of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the \"Cat,\" Brick's wife. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death. Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States.The original production starred Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, and Ben Gazzara.The play was adapted as a motion picture of the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, with Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood recreating their stage roles. Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974. This has been the version used for most subsequent revivals, which have been numerous."@en }
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- Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof abstract "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. Williams wrote the play on the terrace of Sun Beach bar in Tangiers/Morocco. It was produced by the Playwrights' Company. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the \"plantation home in the Mississippi Delta\" of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the \"Cat,\" Brick's wife. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death. Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States.The original production starred Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, and Ben Gazzara.The play was adapted as a motion picture of the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, with Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood recreating their stage roles. Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974. This has been the version used for most subsequent revivals, which have been numerous.".