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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Dec 03, 2009

reviewer: Aaron from Saffron Waldon - See all reviews by Aaron

It was fantastic, James Earl Jones was brilliant. Strongly recommend you go and see the production.

It was brilliant to see such a good production by such an amazing cast.

The interpretation on William's script was spectacular on behalf of the director. Fantastic job, myself and the rest of the A-Level Drama students at my college loved the production.

15 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

Extremely good cast, shame about the audience, Dec 03, 2009

reviewer: Margaret Popovic from London - See all reviews by Margaret Popovic

I saw this play on the first matinee. Most of the cast were very good in particular Sanaa Latham, playing Maggie. She held the first part of the play despite little support from Adrian Lester who didn't look right for Brick and did not, at least in the first part, give the feeling of pent up dangerous emotion that I felt his part required. It was a privilege to see James Earl Jones in action.
Sadly, the audience laughed throughout and then stood whooping and cheering like a Jerry Springer show.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Brilliant play meets African-American ethos, Dec 29, 2009

reviewer: Lawrence Shapiro from London, U.K. - See all reviews by Lawrence Shapiro

I had the great good pleasure to see a recent matinee of 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' at the Novello Theatre this week.

For the first time in my life I have seen a play directed by an African-American woman. Actress and choreographer Debbie Allen takes Tennesee Williams' dysfunctional southern family of emotional misfits and places them in a vivid cultural African-American dynamic. Hardly a word is altered from the original text of the play written over half a century ago and yet the power and intensity of sexual repression, family secrets and personal turmoil is further heightened and dramatized as these universal human struggles are given new resonance in the context of an African-American family. James Earl Jones' thunderous performance as Big Daddy is equalled only by the sheer unrecognizability of Phlycia Rashad as Big Momma. Superb performances from all else.

This production is a milestone in theatre. African-American women in roles of creative leadship. Don't miss it.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Comedy or Tragedy?, Dec 12, 2009

reviewer: Anonymous from London - See all reviews by Anonymous

Excellent performance from Jones but its current production detracted from the ultimate seriousness of the play. Instead, the story became farcical and the character of Brick mishandled so that instead of appearing like the heartsick and defeated man Tennessee Williams created, he become the play's punchline, something to point and laugh at when he hams up the drunken moments and fails to convey the genuine pain he is in.