<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Drama, southern gothic </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Setting </Th> <Td> Brick and Margaret's room on the Pollitt plantation in Mississippi </Td> </Tr> <P> Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams . One of Williams's best - known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955 . Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta" of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife . </P> <P> Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features motifs such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression and death . Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States . The original production starred Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara . The play was adapted as a motion picture of the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, with Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood recreating their stage roles . Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974 . This has been the version used for most subsequent revivals, which have been numerous . </P>

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