"This version was prepared by Williams for the American Shakespeare Festival production in 1974, with all the changes that satisfied the playwright's desire for a definitive text"--Page 4 of cover

Introduction / Edward Albee -- Cat on a hot tin roof -- "Swinging a cat" / Brian Parker -- "Author and director : a delicate situation" / Tennessee Williams

Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son