num_pages: 1
description: Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.
language: English
title: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
titlecomplete: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
characters: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt, Gooper Pollitt, Big Mama Pollitt, Mae Pollitt, Big Daddy Pollitt, Brick Pollitt
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, American, Southern, Plays, School, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 59822
places: The United States of America, Mississippi
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -473356800000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Signet