Scot Knisley as Brick, Cheryl Mellen as Big Mama & Sarah Caplan as Mae.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Presented by Beavercreek Community Theatre
Sept. 12-21
Beavercreek
Directed by Michael Boyd
Cast: Saul Caplan as Big Daddy, Cheryl Mellen as Big Mama, Scott Knisley as Brick, Megan Cooper as Maggie, Sarah Caplan as Mae “Sister Woman,” Jeremey Gingrich as Gooper “Brother Man,” Dave Gaylor as Doc Baugh, Sierra Smith as Dixie, Annie Chiles as Trixie, Nicholas Chiles as Scooter, and Drew Coleman as Ralph
In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy’s daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she’s finally become pregnant by Big Daddy’s favorite son, Brick, but Brick won’t cooperate in Maggie’s plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening’s end, Maggie’s ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick’s love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie’s loving arms.
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 12-13 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 14 at 3pm
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 19-20 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 21 at 3pm
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