CAST ON A HOT TIN ROOF: A DYSFUNCTIONAL DIXIE CHRISTMAS
The Free Associates have made me very merry, therefore, by doing little more to their long-running, long-form improv show Cast on a Hot Tin Roof than trim it with some tinsel, add a touch of mistletoe, and drop it into the holiday season. Cast on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dysfunctional Dixie Christmas is described by the improv group as the Christmas play that Tennessee Williams “forgot to write.” Following their usual format, the actors fashion a fully improvised one-act in the style of Williams based on the audience’s choice of family relationships and dark secrets. The audience also decides who in the play will have the honor of being the repressed homosexual and which character from an actual Williams play will make an appearance. In deference to the season, viewers also provide a “dysfunctional Christmas wish” for one of the characters and a seasonal occupation for another.
