On the Waterfront
From: Wednesday, 28th January 2009
To: Saturday, 25 April 2009
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Synopsis
1953. The New York docks are flooded with corruption, controlled by the mob, backed by big business, the church and city politics. Stirred by the beautiful innocence of Edie Doyle and the prodding of the waterfront priest, ex-boxer and fringe hoodlum, Terry Malloy finds himself contending with his own conscience as he embarks on the hardest fight of his life.
Our Review:
13 February 2009
Nobody carves up a stage like Steven Berkoff: his version of Elia Kazan’s iconic 1954 movie, using the script Budd Schulberg adapted from his own screenplay, is a fluid, non-stop, slow-motion sculpture show, bathed in pools of light and purple silhouette, danced and conjured by a cast of twelve in homburgs and dark suits in tight groups, diagonal lines and prancing processions round a square, tilted acting area.
It amounts to a truly creative evocation of the movie without catching its heartbeat, the love story between the Marlon Brando character, Terry Malloy, the twenty-something former boxer who could have been a contender, and the blonde demure sister, Edie Doyle, of the longshoreman who is pushed off the roof in the opening reel.
Simon Merrells as Terry and Bryony Afferson as Edie (replacing Coral Beed, who played the role in Edinburgh and Nottingham) make a rather drab couple, he in his mid-thirties (Brando’s Terry was “pushing thirty”), she l...
Latest User Review
Hannah - 24 April 2009:
The plot was slow and Berkoff's perfromance was a disappoitment, especially after all the hype I had heard about him....
Cast
Steven Berkoff (Johhnny Friendly)
Simon Merrells (Terry Malloy)
Vincenzo Nicoli (Father Barry)
Coral Beed (Edie Doyle)
Antony Byrne (Charley Malloy)
Alexander Thomas
Ian Gofton
Sean Buckley
Alex McSweeny
Dominic Grant
Alex Giannini
Gavin Marshall
Creative
Budd Schulberg (Author)
Bill Kenwright (Producer)
Michael Edwards (Producer)
Carole Winter (Producer)
Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company (Company)
Steven Berkoff (Adaptation)
Budd Schulberg (Adaptation)
Stan Silverman (Adaptation)
Steven Berkoff (Director)
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