I was in the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof group that presented on Tuesday, September 14th. We had a difficult time meeting as a whole group because of all of our busy schedules, but I was able to be at the first group meeting where we brainstormed the themes we wanted to explore and all the possible ways to present our discoveries. Knowing that we could be a little adventurous with our presentation, I thought we could stray away from the traditional discussion presentation of simply having each person speak to present specific topics. After failing to do a Dating Game-esque presentation in a previous class, I saw the ability to integrate six characters into a Jerry Springer-esque presentation, especially with all the dysfunctional aspects of relationships within the play. From that, and the fact that we had a 4:2 ratio of girls to guys, sprung our episode of "Kerry Springer", where we would explore how each character feels like a cat on a hot tin roof; caught in a relationship that they can't get out of, and oftentimes, don't even want to get out of.
Each person had a role for Kerry Springer -- I was Big Mama, coming out towards the end to make sure to emphasize the fact that Big Mama believes there are no secrets to be had in the Pollitt family and to continue to be disillusioned to the reality of Big Daddy's distaste of her. Most importantly, Big Mama is continues to deny any notion of Big Daddy dying, leading to an argument about the will that Gooper (represented in our show by Mae) has sketched out.
If we had had more time to work on the presentation, I feel like we could have really polished it up, and I had hoped to add an audio/visual element to the presentation, with pre-show interviews, pictures, and music, but eventually decided there wasn't enough time to do any of that. So I settled on making a poster to hang up instead :)
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