Daisy Edgar-Jones stars in Tennessee Williams’s searingly unhappy play at London’s Almeida Theatre
“Give me my crutch!” hollers Kingsley Ben-Adir’s Brick at one point in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He’s referring to the physical support he has needed since breaking his ankle in a mysterious 3am accident. But he could also be talking about the liquor that is just about getting him through the day, while rotting his mind and destroying his body.
An ugly tussle for his huge estate rumbles in the background, with Gooper and Mae asserting their sobriety and their growing brood of children, in contrast to Brick’s dissolute state and lack of issue. Thwarted desire — for money, for sex, for love — can make people ugly and this is possibly Williams’s bitterest play: grim as a Greek tragedy, soaked in trapped sadness.
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