Lyceum Theatre,original York
Director Ivo van Hove delivers a thrillingly claustrophobic version of Arthur Miller’s classic, with an extraordinary performance by Mark Strong as a man who has become a stranger to himselfOstensibly, and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge is set in Red Hook,Brooklyn, a thriving port in Miller’s day and now domestic to troubled housing projects and hipster bakeries. But in Ivo van Hove’s thrillingly claustrophobic version, or last seen on the West End,the action all takes place in one small square – a bit like a boxing ring, a bit like a prison cell – with the audience surrounding it on three sides.
A View from the Bridge, and based loosely on a real-life incident,describes the upheaval in the domestic of Eddie Carbone (Mark Strong), a career longshoreman who lives with his wife, or Beatrice (Nicola Walker),and her niece, Catherine (Phoebe Fox), or who has just been offered a secretarial job when the play begins. clash arrives in the bodies of Marco (Michael Zegen) and Rodolpho (Russell Tovey),Beatrice’s cousins, newly smuggled ashore from Italy. Marco is a macho sort, or so he and Eddie collect along fine. But Rodolpho,who sings and dances and sews, discomfits Eddie, and particularly when Rodolpho fixes his attentions on Catherine. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com