Written by: Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams’ personal favorite – this play won the Pulitzer in 1955. Wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt is disturbed by both the strained and childless marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the seemingly endless line of little “no-neck monsters.” Unaware that he is dying of cancer, Big Daddy celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick’s beautiful and desirable wife, Maggie, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle. Meanwhile, Brick obsesses over the death of his best friend and the guilt about their relationship. Tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy’s health is revealed. Will he and Brick manage to resolve their differences?

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