Almedia associate director Rebecca Frecknall made her name with a revival of Tennessee Williams obscurity ‘Summer and Smoke’ and scored a walloping hit two Christmases back with her production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Now she moves on to her third major Williams revival with a fresh take on 1955 classic ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, which follows a wealthy but disintegrating Southern cotton family who have gathered on the occasion of bullying patriarch Big Daddy’s birthday. He, however, is the only one there unaware of his terminal cancer diagnosis. Frecknall directs Lennie James as Big Daddy, Kingsley Ben-Adir as his sensitive alcoholic son Brick, and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Brick’s troubled wife Maggie. Guy Burgess, Clare Burt, Seb Carrington, Derek Hagen, Ukweli Roach and Ria Zmitrowicz make up the rest of the cast.
Tickets go on sale Seprtember 27.
