Cat On A Hot Tin Roof  
by Tennessee Williams

This is the classic Tennessee Williams story: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is about human experience in a society, which tries to dictate to people how they should live. In a southern plantation house, members of the family are celebrating the sixty-fifth birthday of the Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The tone is upbeat, but the mood is somber. For a number of old evils poison the gaiety--sins of the past, greedy hopes for the future, a desperate eagerness not to believe in the truths that surround them. The characters try to escape from the loneliness of their private lives into some form of understanding. The truth invariably terrifies them and is one thing they cannot face or speak.  

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof  will be the opening production of the Emerald City Players’ 2001 – 2002 season. It is being directed by Todd Decker of Columbus. He has a Masters degree in Theater Arts Education from OSU and teaches at Fort Hayes Arts & Academic High School, where he is the Theater Arts Director. Decker is well known in Columbus theater having recently directed Hotline for Red Herring Theatre Company and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told for Reality Theater. He has also directed at Fort Hayes and for the Interlochen World Center for Arts Education, where he was Musical Theater Director for three years.

The  Production dates are:

Thursday - September 27^th - 8:00 PM
Friday - September 28^th - 8:00 PM
Saturday - September 29^th - 8:00 PM
Sunday - September 30^th - 2:00 PM
Thursday - October 4^th   - 8:00 PM
Friday – October 5^th - 8:00 PM
Saturday - October 6^th - 8:00 PM