Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Time Out“Director Debbie Allen adds weight to the question of ownership and power...” Veteran actor James Earl Jones is perfectly cast as Big Daddy. The powerful second act duologue between Brick and Big Daddy packs a big enough emotional punch to carry the production home...

MusicOMH“Not yet reviewed”

Financial Times“What you gain is a powerful sense of the play’s universality...” Come the second act, and the crucial heart-to-heart between dying patriarch Big Daddy and his alcoholic son Brick, the production rises to a magnificent pitch that brings out all the pain of this great play...

The Stage“A gripping, shattering staging of a great play...” The towering, glowering James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad reprise their magnificent New York turns as the father and mother at the heart of this wrenching drama, and they lend it both gravitas and grit...

Whatsonstage.com“This revival renews renews the play's full shock value...” Led by the legendary James Earl Jones – surely London’s last chance to see this great figure of the American theatre – as a rumbling, terrifying Big Daddy, Allen’s cast is a compelling synthesis of visiting and local talent...

this is london“Powerful in its depiction of moral crisis yet uneven and ambiguous...” Even if the production could do with more fierceness, it packs a big emotional punch, and the face-off between Brick and Big Daddy in the second act is a triumph...

The Times“Very well played...” Williams hoped Big Daddy and Brick's climactic encounter would have the “cloudy, flickering, evanescent, fiercely charged interplay of live human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis”. Last night I felt he didn’t hope in vain...

The Telegraph“A production in which dark laughter mingles with deep pain...” Race quickly ceases to be an issue at all, thanks to some tremendous performances from the Anglo-American cast in this harrowing but often blackly comic drama of dysfunctional family life...

The Independent“All the more powerful for being, within its altered terms, played straight.” Allen's compelling, sensitive and acerbically comic production is remarkable in how swiftly you become so absorbed by the universal elements in the story that you almost completely forget about the counter-intuitive colour of the actors' skins...

Guardian“One emerges moved by the author's compassion...” Ethnicity matters less than emotional firepower and an awareness of the essential Williams conflict between lies and truth; and both are abundantly present in this exhilarating evening...