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Groton Regional Theatre announces auditions for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Groton Regional Theatre
will be holding auditions for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tennessee
Williams drama CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, on Monday, July 14, and Wednesday,
July 16, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM both days. Auditions will take place at
the auditorium in the Groton Senior Center, 102 Newtown Road (Route 117), Groton.

The
classic play, written in 1955 and revised by Williams in 1974, centers
around a Mississippi family in turmoil as it grapples with the illness
of patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon. Themes explored
include fraternal rivalry, alcoholism, repressed sexuality, greed, and
reconciliation.

Roles include the following:

Brick
(20s-early 30s): The favorite son, Brick is handsome and masculine. He
is using alcohol to drown his grief over the death of a male friend and
his repressed sexuality.

Margaret (20s-early 30s): Brick's wife
and the play's "cat," Maggie is beautiful, lonely, and frustrated
because her husband does not desire her.

Big Daddy (50s-60s):
Brick's father. An old-fashioned "Mississippi redneck," Daddy is a
brash, vulgar plantation millionaire who is facing death.

Big Mama (50s-60s): Brick's mother. Mama is crude and living in denial about her husband's contempt of her.


Gooper (30s-early 40s): The elder son, a successful lawyer loathed by
his parents; deeply resents his parents' love for Brick and ruthlessly
plots to control of the estate.

Mae (30s-early 40s): Mean, agitated, phony; schemes with husband Gooper to secure Big Daddy's estate.

Reverend Tooker (40s-60s): Tactless, opportunistic, moralistic, hypocritical guest at Big Daddy's birthday party.


Doctor Baugh (40s-60s): Big Daddy's physician; delivers Daddy's
diagnosis to Big Mama and leaves her with a prescription of morphine.


The Children (variable ages): Gooper and Mae's children, "no- necked
monsters" who interrupt the on-stage action and make a show of familial
love and devotion, under their mother's coaching.

The servants: Servants who appear throughout the play.


Performances will be October 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17 and 19. Friday and
Saturday shows will be at 8:00 PM and Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM. The
play will be directed by Vic Panciera. For more information, please call
(860) 446-1363.

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