CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF comes to Leeds

 

Sarah Esdaile directs Tennessee Williams' corruscating CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (ends 27th October). The prodcution features Hannah Stokely as Mae.

"....... Tennessee Williams' tremendous play .............the big virtue of Esdaile's production is that it shows British actors are at home in this world of unbuttoned emotion.........   Boyle ... catches perfectly Maggie's desperate need for bodily warmth and affection....  Hannah Stokely lends Big Daddy's prodigiously fertile daughter-in-law a steely attractiveness...... highly impressive production....   "  Michael Billington  The Guardian ****

"........ pent up frustrations of dysfunctional family life down on the plantation  bubble and seethe ......   Sarah Esdailes's skilful production...   transports you... and plonks you in the midst of an exotic and passionate drama."                                           Jonathan Brown   The Independent  ****

"... to live with someone - to love someone - who can't stand the sight of you, let alone bear to touch you......... is the fact that the director of this superb revival is a woman significant.....? "  Dominic Cavendish  The  Telegraph ****

"....... Esdaile's production is crammed with piquant detail...... sublimely offsets the heartbeaking with the grotesquely funny ..."    Sam Marlowe  The Times ****

 

 

              

 

 

 

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