A southern plantation home populated by a dysfunctional family, including a litter of “no-neck monsters,” is the setting for Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Greensburg Civic Theatre will hold auditions from 6-9 p.m. March 3 and 6-7:15 p.m. March 4 for an April 30, May 1-2 production of the play, which examines the relationships of Big Daddy Pollitt, his son Brick and Brick’s wife, Maggie the “Cat.”
Big Daddy’s other son, Gooper, and his wife, Mae, also reside in the home with their ever-increasing brood of children.
Casting will take place at the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center, 951 Old Salem Road.
Roles include that of Maggie, (late 20s to mid-30s), whose loneliness has made her hard and nervous; Brick (late 20s to mid-30s), the favorite son and mourning lover who has a repressed homosexual desire for his dead friend Skipper; Big Daddy (old enough to be a grandfather), a large, brash, and vulgar plantation millionaire; Big Mama (same general age as Big Daddy), Brick’s mother and Big Daddy’s wife; Mae (30s), a mean, agitated wife and mother; and Gooper, a successful corporate lawyer, the elder and less-favored son.
Cast members also include party guests, a clergyman and a doctor, middle-aged to elderly; and four children between the ages of 4 and 9.
Advance sign-ups are preferred at gcttheare.org/auditions.html.
Video auditions will be accepted until March 2 via email to director Margie Griffin Hillebrecht at maggiescorner@comcast.net.
