Schauspielhaus Linz

Every escape from the “family cage” is fatal

Benedikt Steiner as Brick and Theresa Palfi as Maggie in "The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof".(Bild: PHILIP BRUNNADER)

"Do you make your husband happy in bed?", Big Daddy asks his childless daughter-in-law. But she suffers from Brick, who drinks and is gay - but this is taboo. Director Susanne Lietzow staged Tennessee Williams' play "The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof" at the Schauspielhaus in Linz, mercilessly exposing greed, hypocrisy and lies.

"Booze is one way out, death is the other," says Brick to his father. There is no other way to escape from the "family system". This refers to an American family, a Trump family, but one that could just as easily wear leather pants instead of cowboy boots.