Join us as we welcome the artist who just received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama himself!
WHAT: Moisés Kaufman presents CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
WHEN: Monday, October 17, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
1958. US. 108 min. Directed by Richard Brooks. 35mm print!
A possibly gay man (Paul Newman) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor), turn on each other during a visit to their family home in this high octane adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ mo...
Join us as we welcome the artist who just received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama himself!
WHAT: Moisés Kaufman presents CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
WHEN: Monday, October 17, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
1958. US. 108 min. Directed by Richard Brooks. 35mm print!
A possibly gay man (Paul Newman) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor), turn on each other during a visit to their family home in this high octane adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ monumental play. Though the play’s overt depiction of homosexuality was toned down, audiences read between the lines. Tony-nominated director and playwright Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project, Gross Indecency) saw the film in Venezuela at age 12. He writes, “Brick’s struggle with his sexuality echoed much of my own experience growing up gay in Latin America in the ’70s. And hearing Big Daddy address his son so bluntly, and so compassionately, created for me a concrete image of what was possible.”
As always, our screening will be followed by drinks and discussion at Julius Bar (159 West 10th St. at Waverly), the oldest gay bar in New York City!
MOISÉS KAUFMAN
Moisés Kaufman is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He is also the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations. He was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to New York City in 1987. He described himself in an interview by saying "I am Venezuelan, I am Jewish, I am gay, I live in New York. I am the sum of all my cultures. I couldn’t write anything that didn’t incorporate all that I am." Kaufman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. He made his Broadway directing debut in the 2004 production of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play.
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