The SOlid Gold Caddilac

A viewing of The Solid Gold Cadillac by George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichman, took place on Friday the 21st of March at the Brisbane Arts Theatre. The Solid Gold Cadillac is a narrative piece concerning four smug directors of General Products Incorporation, and a timid small shareholder whose clever questioning at the annual stockholders meeting causes a stir with the director’s self-satisfaction. Posing a threat to the company, the directors decide to keep her quiet by buying her off with a phony job in the company. Then the fun starts to begin. It is a fairytale and is almost the story of Cinderella and the four ugly company directors. The play is the exploration of corporate mismanagement, greed and corruption, which is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.

Each character seemed to work off each other with each actor giving cartoon like performances. The script was well written and the cast interpreted it with apparent ease. It was a clever screenplay filled with humor,...