It’s a long, booze-filled night under Big Daddy’s

plantation roof in 1950s Mississippi. Maggie "the Cat" still burns hot for her ex-football star husband Brick, but he only has eyes for the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Meanwhile, Big Daddy is dying, and the family vultures are swarming for a big slice of the inheritance pie.

Couched in the earthy language of the deep South, this

uncompromising, intensely human portrait of a family shows why Williams is one of America’s greatest playwrights.