Tensions explode in scorching new production of Tennessee Williams’ Deep South
classic
Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof
Northern
Stage, Newcastle
Friday
12 - Saturday 27 September
One of the stage’s most seductive evocations of the
Deep South,
Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer prize-winning Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, has new life
breathed into it this Autumn in a co-production between Northern Stage, Royal
& Derngate and Royal Exchange Theatre .
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Director:
James Dacre
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Directed by Royal & Derngate’s Artistic
Director James Dacre
and with original music by the band White Lies,
this bold new staging runs at Northern Stage from Friday 12 September to
Saturday 27 September before transferring to Royal & Derngate in Northampton , and then the Royal
Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
The stifling heat of the plantation. A relationship
on the brink.
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Charles
Aitken in rehearsal
Photo:
Robert Day
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A night of bourbon-soaked confrontations and a
family dynasty in crisis. Brimming with emotional intensity, this powerful
drama sees members of the family gather together on the night of patriarch and cotton tycoon Big
Daddy’s 65th birthday. Keeping from him the news that he is dying, the evening
spirals into disaster as the family scramble to secure their part of his
inheritance.
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Matthew
Douglas and Kim Criswell
Photo:
Robert Day
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Playing the iconic role of Maggie the Cat is Ian
Charleson Award winner Mariah Gale whose many credits with the Royal
Shakespeare Company include Juliet, Ophelia, Miranda and Portia. Charles Aitken (Sweet Bird of Youth , Old Vic) plays her husband, Brick. Big Mama is
played by seasoned Broadway and West End
performer Kim Criswell (Candide, La Scala, Sound of Music , Le Chatalet),
winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Side by Side by Sondheim and nominated for
an Olivier for Best Actress in Musical for the title role in Annie Get Your Gun.
Winner of a Drama Logue Award for Best Actor for Dealer’s Choice in Los Angeles and veteran of
seasons at the RSC,
Daragh O’Malley (Sharpe, The Long Good Friday, Withnail and I) plays the
tycoon Big Daddy.
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Vicky
Elliott
Photo:
Adele Curtis
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Victoria Elliott makes a welcome return to Northern
Stage to play the role of Mae. Vicky was nominated for Best Actress in the 2012
Manchester Theatre Awards for Two at the Royal Exchange and is probably best
known to audiences for TV roles in the BBC’s Hebburn and 55 Degrees North. Matthew Douglas (A Winter’s
Tale, Headlong) plays Gooper, Kieron Jecchinis (To Kill a Mockingbird, Royal
Exchange) is Doctor Baugh and Sean Murray (A Tale of Two Cities, Royal &
Derngate) is Reverend Tooker.
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Mariah
Gale
Photo:
Robert Day
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Fresh from success with A Tale of Two Cities and The
Body of an American at Royal & Derngate, and from Holy Warriors
at Shakespeare’s Globe, James Dacre directs, with
design by Mike Britton (A Tale of Two Cities), lighting by Richard Howell (Privacy
, Donmar Warehouse, The Island, Young Vic) and sound design by Emma Laxton (Coriolanus,
Donmar Warehouse, The Arrest of Ai Wei Wei, Hampstead Theatre). Bringing a
scorching intensity to Williams’ classic tale, original music is being composed
by MOJO and Q Award-winning
White Lies.
James Dacre said, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, written
on the eve of the
sexual and civil rights revolution, is one of America’s greatest
plays. I’m thrilled that Royal & Derngate, Northern Stage and the Royal Exchange–all
as intimate and as grand as the story itself –are working together for the
first time to stage Tennessee Williams’ incendiary masterpiece.”
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| Daragh O'Malley Photo: Robert Day |
Tickets:
Recommended Age: 12+
Friday 12 September – Saturday 27 September 2014
Times: 7.30pm, plus 2pm matinee on Saturdays and 6pm ‘straight from work’
performance Tuesday 16 September.
No performances on Sundays or Mondays.
Tickets: £24, £19.50 & £14.50 / Students &
U21s £12
Box Office: 0191 230 5151
or online at www.northernstage.co.uk
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Captioned
performance Thur
25 Sept, 7.30pm
British
Sign Language performance Fri
26 Sept, 7.30pm
Touch Tour Sat 27 Sept, 12.30pm
Audio
Described performance Sat
27 Sept, 2pm
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