Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Nude wet Brick!

This play is back to front.

The penis scene happens in the first five minutes. The last hour is endless talk, talk, talk.

Brick should be nude for the entire play.

R4 No, his penis would shrivel during the endless talk, talk, talk.

R5, it wouldn’t just be about the dong. He could present hole for Act II.

I haven't a clue about either one of these twits, but neither can hold a candle to Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, both of whom were at their peak of physical beauty.

Why bother with this dreck?

But R7, this pale Englishman with the pointy ears actually presents penis while Paul kept his pants on.

See-yeenah Millah is waaay ovuh the tawp with that accent.

I could not bear to listen to Sienna Miller caterwauling del sur for three hours. Sorry.

Unless Brick was in the Royal Army or Marines, he would't have had a "Jack the Lad" tat.

[quote]R7 Why bother with this dreck?

You think plays should never be revived?

They shouldn't be revived with skinny men with pixie-ears and dopey skin-paint.

[quote]R13 They shouldn't be revived with skinny men with pixie-ears and dopey skin-paint.

HEAR THAT, BROADWAY??

This is a revival of the play not the movie. The reason to bother is that Taylor and Newman were never n the play - there were in an adaptation that change the play significantly.

Enjoy the movie but please don't think seeing the movie is anything similar to seeing the play. Two different stories.

R15, most dullard DLers have never seen live theater.

But still. Yea, cover up the Brit tats if you're gonna go nude and play a U.S. Southerner.

This reminds me of the Brit stage-casting of the recent production of 'Gypsy,' starring Imedla Staunton. The accents were all over the place; annoying, ear-piercing and bizarre.

Tits on a Cunt Hound's Woof

Isn't Sienna Miller a shit actress?

Please. 21st century tattoos on the male lead, 21st century stringy, limp hair on the female lead. I will not accept this! I just won't.

Somewhere, Kevin Spacey's lamenting the fact that he can't be in this to harass Jack O'Connell.

Melonville Players proudly presents...

Would Brick have had an uncut prick?

Tats are 21st century:

Moody:

R15 I've seen both play and movie versions and I say that they're pretty similar (except, of course, for Brick's predilection for cock).

But I agree with you that very few stage actors have the sex appeal of Taylor and Newman. In fact I reckon much of Tennessee Williams' success is due to the stars he attracted— such as Bankhead, Burton, Brando, Hepburn, Liz and Vivien!

My favorite version was with Elizabeth Ashley as Maggie, and Keir Dullea as Brick, back in the mid '70s. It was the most spectacular thing I'd ever seen.

Yes, R18.

R28 Liz didn't need to "act" to play Maggie the Cat. She was Maggie the Cat.

Does ghost Skipper feature in this version too?

R29 She had impotent husbands?

cat shit on a hot tin roof.

aint jack mcconnell the one who broke up angie and brad?

she fiddled with him....

i'm gonna shit on your furniture!

I saw the one with ScarJo and Meryl's ex son in law. Boring, dated, hokey mess. And if you add in English people doing their Hee Haw imitations....pass

yup. i'm gonna drive straight over to your house and shit on every stick of furniture in your house. motherfucker!

Given their marital histories, could Liza or Judy have played Maggie?

lol i love shittin'!

My pussy has never been there and I am unanimous in that

I actually think Sienna Miller is a very good actress.

It's probably better than the Natalie Wood/Robert Wagner/Laurence Olivier TV version.

Wood lacked fire, Wagner just can't act, and Olivier was too old and frail as BIg Daddy.

I saw a live production of the play a long time ago. It was a long play, but I was spellbound, the entire time. I know the movie with Liz and Paul was 'tamed' according to the standards of the times, but it's still beautiful. The play itself, though, in the raw, is really something when the casting is fortuitous.

The Angels in America broadcast had British actors doing impeccable American accents and Nathan Lane doing an unconvincing one as Roy Cohn.

But the trailer for this sounds as if none of these actors have ever even heard an American speak.

R22 -- Brick's dick would likely have been cut in that era in the Delta because he likely would have been born in a hospital in Memphis under an OB-GYN's care, given the Pollitt's social caste and money.

This, as opposed to being born at home with a midwife or in a crummy county clinic or hospital.

Wow that trailer was bad. The accents particularly. Brick looked more like a Chav than southern aristocracy.

British Theatre is in bad way.

Actually, World Theatre is in bad way. It's redundant in the 21st century.

Theatre belongs in a museum.

Sienna.........WHOOOOOO????

Playbill:

Poor people along the Gulf Coast eat nutria.

They are colloquially and disparagingly called "nootra-eaters."

Tennessee Williams thought Elizabeth Ashley was the best Cat. And he disliked Barbara Bel Geddes in the role, who originated it.

That actor in R49 was be a good Brick if he shaved.

[quote]Tennessee Williams thought Elizabeth Ashley was the best Cat.

He kind of liked any star he was around at the moment. He told every Blanche they were the best Blanche, for instance.

Williams did say the idia of Liz Taylor as Catherine in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER struck him as ludicrous. He felt Liz would have given Cousin Sebastian a good shake and dragged him home by his ear.

I don't think the producers of this play care about how we think their actors are ugly and inappropriate.

They're also doing a production of 'Julius Caesar' where Brutus is played by the decidedly UNbrutish, skinny little Ben Whishaw. And Cassius is played by a female.

I can't see Bel Geddes in the role--she just wasn't sexy at all.

Ashley, you bet.

Saw Kathleen Turner as Maggie. She was good but Charles Durning as Big Daddy was really good. Brian Hugh Kelly as Brick was lost between those two. I would have loved to have seen Ashley play Maggie. I've seen her twice on stage where she truly radiates a rare presence that her movie and TV work don't have.

Did the National Theatre Live broadcast include the stage nudity?

Is The National too cheap to hire a dialect coach?

[quote] Brian Hugh Kelly as Brick

Do you mean DANIEL Hugh-Kelly?

The National Theatre Live production won't play in my city until April.

I disliked the film version. Newman underplayed to the point of monotony and it made Taylor come off as slightly lunatic.

I saw the Kathleen Turner production. Polly Holliday was Big Mama. That's all I have to say.

I think my first exposure to it was the Broadway on Showtime production with Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones, but I remember nothing.

All in all, not my favorite Tennessee Williams.

I saw Ashley do Vanities in Chicago with the dynamic Miss Lesley Ann Warren and the boisterous Miss Barbara Sharma.

I saw the Sienna Miller-Jack O’Connell NT Live broadcast tonight. She was magnificent, a very natural Maggie. He was sexy and quite good also, although his accent slipped some. He looked quite lovely naked, from both the front and the back.

Interview with Jack, including thoughts about being nude onstage.

What will be the next nudity-enriched classic play? I vote for Romeo and Juliet.

Holy fuckin' shit I saw this last night. The very first shot was Jack O'Connell (Brick) spread wide open, a hunk of grade-A prime beef dangling between his legs. Let's just say that Jack O'Connell does NOT suffer from the curse of the Irish. Woof woof.

R64, indeed. I hope it gets released to blu-ray eventually.

You got that right r64!

Screencaps! Now! Cock shots!

It occurred to me that Cat on a Hot Tin Roof could be seen as a different view on A Streetcar Named Desire, with the genders reversed. Maggie is the aggressor, as Stanley was.

Saw this last night. O'Connor was beautiful but a terrible actor as Brick. I can see why they wanted him naked a lot. No subtlety and all of his big lines were poorly delivered. Miller I thought was overall quite good. She blew ScarJo out of the water. Big Daddy was also good.

The accents on a Big Mama and Mae were terrible and cartoonish. Big Mama sounded like the Egg Lady from that John Waters movies. Her acting was decent but the voice was distracting.

The set was minimal but worked. The cake bit was kinda silly.

With a better Brick this could have been a really good production. Again, all the gratuitous nudity was a highlight.

Even more than seeing his dick I enjoyed the very lengthy look at his ass in the shower. Yum.

[quote]What will be the next nudity-enriched classic play?

Hamlet. The "to be or not to be speech" will be done while Hamlet is undressing. Hamlet's penis with be the impetus that sends Ophelia into insanity. And of course, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will be played in g-strings.

dick pics now!

Mr. O'Connell's shapely posterior completely upstages a lengthy Maggie monologue in Act One.

Kazan wanted Bel Geddes because he knew she was insecure about her attractiveness and wanted that insecurity in the performance. Maggie is not only competing with the memory of Skipper but she's also dealing with her husband's sexual indifference to her because she's not sexually attractive enough. This brings a whole other layer of desperation.

By the way Brick's obsession with Skipper comes across very clearly in the movie and as something that would not be openly discussed at the time you can tell the other characters are clearly disconcerted by this obsession with a male friend. It doesn't need to be spelled out and it's more realistic and unsettling.

I agree with 74. I love the movie version with Taylor and Newman. The lines are brilliant and they both deliver them in a more powerful way. And I think the movie ending is just as tragic as the play. Whether Maggie bribes him with liquor or not, is Brick really choosing to sleep with her? And when it all falls apart who is he going to blame?

"Are my seams straight?"

[quote]What will be the next nudity-enriched classic play?

"The Women."

Can I be brick next?

Of course Brick would have foreskin.

The practice of genital mutilation began in Yankee country about 1960.

He would not have tragic tattoos or be so out of shape.

R78 you think that Brick is out of shape? Huh?

Btw, this version of the play takes place in modern times. There are smartphones in it.

[quote]The practice of genital mutilation began in Yankee country about 1960.

So not so. Maybe 1946, coinciding with the baby boom. I only saw one uncircumcised cock before I was in my 20s.

My father is circumcised and he was born in 1936.