A Broadway director criticised Tennessee Williams’ original Act Three on three counts. He claimed that Big Daddy should not be absent from the Act; that there should be perceptible change in Brick’s character after his interview with Big Daddy; and that the character of Maggie should be more sympathetic.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the director?

When the play was staged on Broadway in New York in 1955 Elia Kazan, a friend of Williams who has directed many of his other plays on Broadway including ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, directed it. Kazan had reservations about the original Act Three and asked Williams to rewrite it. He felt that Big Daddy should not disappear after Act Two, that the impact of the conversation between Big Daddy and Brick in Act Two should have a change on Bricks character in the following act; and that Maggie should be made a clearly more sympathetic character. Williams rewrote the act to incorporate Kazan’s suggestions but in his......

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Title: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Exam Question
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