Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is one of the most famous plays by Tennessee Williams –  one of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century and the author of other iconic works such as A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. Written in 1955, the play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is considered one of the classic texts of modern American theatre.

In this remarkable dramatic world, Williams reveals a seemingly orderly family, beneath whose outward stability accumulate tension, dissatisfaction, fear, loneliness, and long-suppressed truths. With exceptional psychological depth, the play traces the collapse of familial illusions and the painful clash between the need for intimacy and the impossibility of achieving it.

In Stayko Murdzhev’s production, this classic text resonates as a contemporary story about a person confronted with their own fragility, with the lie that sustains life, and with the truth that may destroy it. The performance by Sofia Theatre places at its center the theme of endurance – not merely survival, but the effort to preserve one’s dignity amid the internal and external pressures of life. As director Stayko Murdzhev himself says: “The theme of standing firm against the whirlwind of life – not survival, but endurance – is central to this brilliant text by Williams…”

Askeer Award 2025 for Supporting Actress (Petya Silyanova)

Nominations for Askeer 2025 and IKAR 2025 (Union of Bulgarian Actors) for Supporting Actor (Irinei Konstantinov)