'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' Hits Manchester

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize winning drama will be presented by for three weekends beginning April 13.

This classic piece of American theater is directed by Antoni Sadlak of Vernon, with a cast including Randy Ronco, Clare Fravel, Sara Logan, Ken Adamson, Steve Jordan, Edwin Lewis, Stacey Hartley, Dana O’Neal, Tucker McMann, Jenna and Riley Mitchell and Emily Weiner. 

Michael Calia, Director of the McMahon Center at Quinnipiac University, in his narrative about Williams for Little Theatre of Manchester says, “Dramatist Tennessee Williams was pivotal to a theatrical metamorphosis in the mid-20th Century. Writers like Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee and Williams dared to reveal the human condition in new and often challenging ways. They confronted audiences with social, political and psychological ideas, experiments and critiques that reflected and commented upon life in post WWII America.

In works such as "The Glass Menagerie," "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Williams created moving portraits of sensitive, often-fragile beings struggling to cope in harsh environments. Audiences reluctantly recognized aspects of themselves and others in his characters; coming to love Williams for what biographer Donald Spoto called his “emotional solidarity with the wounded."

Tickets range from $24 to $17 and are available on line at cheneyhall.org or via the box office located at Cheney Hall, 177 Hartford Rd., Manchester or by calling 860-647-9824. Student rush seats for $15 are offered 15 minutes before curtain, as available. Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m., all other performances are at 8 p.m.

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