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National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  • Drama

February 22, 2018 (GB)

2h 37m

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football bu...

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