A View From the Bridge

Synopsis

Classic tale of love, ambition and revenge. Set amid Brooklyn's Italian-American community. Eddie and Beatrice have raised niece Catherine as their only precious daughter. She is almost 16 when two cousins arrive illegally from Sicily, seeking work and shelter and jeopardising all their dreams. This powerful modern classic will have you gripped as the hero Eddie grapples with his feelings towards the two women in his life, surviving in the shadow of the famous bridge in 1950s New York.

Our Review:

6 April 2011

A View From The Bridge was written around the same time as Arthur Miller’s more famous play on the Salem witch-hunts, The Crucible. But in contrast A View From The Bridge has as its central character a man who cannot help himself breaking social and familial taboos. He is a longshoreman called Eddie Carbone, a middle-aged man in a childless marriage, who has with his wife Beatrice brought up his dead sister’s daughter, Catherine.

Alex Giannini brings a slow-burning intensity to Eddie, convincingly giving us a character who starts almost as a figure of fun in his fussy concern for Catherine, but into whom, in Alfieri’s words, ‘passion moved ... like a stranger’. He is well supported by Francesca Ryan’s world-weary Beatrice and Amy Loughton’s sparky Catherine. Andrew Grose brings a level of taciturn menace ...

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Latest User Review

Duncan - 20 April 2011:

This was the first play I have been to in years and it was brilliant! I've now found a new interest and will be back to the Theatre By The Lake to see another one soon. I just hope that other productions can equal the quality of acting and sets that A Veiw From A Bridge did....

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