Daisy Edgar-Jones is to star in a new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Rebecca Frecknall at London’s Almeida theatre. It will be the third Tennessee Williams play staged by Frecknall at the illustrious venue in Islington, north London. It will follow her versions of Summer and Smoke in 2018 and A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Edgar-Jones’s Normal People co-star Paul Mescal, in 2023. Both of those shows transferred to the West End and won Olivier awards.
Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lennie James will also appear in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which won Williams his second Pulitzer prize for drama. First staged in 1955, it takes place on a sweltering evening in the deep south and explores the divisions in a family assembled for the formidable Big Daddy’s birthday. In Frecknall’s version, James will play the patriarch, Ben-Adir his alcoholic, grief-stricken son Brick and Edgar-Jones takes on the part of Maggie the Cat, Brick’s desperately frustrated wife.
