Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Running time is 2 hours.

Director Lucas Carboni Kopše

Dramaturg Manca Tea Devetak

Set designer Živa Brglez

Costume designers Zarja Černe, Zala Jenček

Sound designer Lucas Carboni Kopše

Lighting designers Živa Brglez, Lucas Carboni Kopše

Cast

Ivan Vastl/Jaša Savnik, Špela Lovrec, Ela Potočnik, Robert Kladnik, Matic Žust Šprah, Ajda Kostevc, Nace Korošec

Mentors

Stage Acting and Theatre Directing doc. Nina Rajić Kranjac, prof. Branko Šturbej

Set Design prof. mag. Jasna Vastl, asist. Sara Slivnik

Costume Design izr. prof. mag. Tina Kolenik, asist. Nina Čehovin

Dramaturgy prof. dr. Tomaž Toporišič, doc. dr. Blaž Lukan

Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a minute, psychological cut through an evening in a seemingly perfect American family. It provides the spectator with an almost voyeuristic insight into the disintegration of a carefully constructed social image. The American dream, the immense wealth, fertile cotton fields and a pile of children running around the house turn out to be an illusion that, in the play, increases to almost the level of a classical tragedy.

The celebration of Big Daddy’s 65th birthday, where all three generations of the Pollitt family gather, reveals the relationships rotten to the core. Faced with Big Daddy’s illness, all the greed, jealousy and secrecy come to the surface, and the mendacity of the world that these characters inhabit is revealed. The false images thus go beyond the concrete situation and open into a broader, universal human experience.