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Starring:
Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Producer:
Kim Poster for Stanhope Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions
Writer:
Arthur Miller
Dockworker Eddie Carbone has made a good life for himself and his wife and niece in 1950’s Brooklyn. As a former immigrant himself, Eddie is happy to house and protect his wife’s Italian cousins who arrive illegally in pursuit of the ‘American Dream’. What Eddie doesn’t know is that this act of kindness will have a shattering effect on his whole life, and the lives of those he loves.
Arthur Miller is arguably American’s finest playwright (whose other landmark works include The Crucible and Death of a Salesman). A View from the Bridge will be an unmissable event.
KEN STOTT is well known for his TV and film roles including; Messiah, The Vice, Rebus and Shallow Grave, his theatre roles include Yasmina Reza's Art and, most recently, God of Carnage.
LINDSAY POSNER won two Olivier awards for his Royal Court production of Death and the Maiden and has most recently directed Fool for Love, Fiddler on the Roof and Carousel in the West End.
Considered one of the great modern classics of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge (1956) begins with the local lawyer, Alfieri, telling the story of Eddie Carbone, a head-strong longshoreman who has helped raise his wife's niece, Catherine, but has developed an unwitting sexual attraction towards her. When his wife's two cousins enter the country illegally looking for work, the Carbones take them in, but when Catherine begins dating the younger of the cousins, Rodolpho, Eddie gets jealous. This begins a series of events that in an intensely absorbing drama, sure of itself every step of the way. It makes no false moves, wastes no time and has the beauty that comes from directness and simplicity.
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