Cast: Mastrantonio Takes View, Pride, Cinderella

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (pictured) will play Ken Stott’s wife in Lindsay Posner’s upcoming revival of Arthur Miller’s 20th-century classic A View from the Bridge, which opens on 5 February 2009 (previews from 24 January) at the West End’s Duke of York’s theatre (See News, 10 Oct 2008).

In Miller’s 1955 play, which hasn’t been seen in the West End since 1995, Stott plays Eddie Carbone, a head-strong longshoreman raising his wife Beatrice’s orphaned niece, Catherine. When Eddie’s feelings for Catherine develop from paternal protectiveness to sexual desire, his struggle to contain his emotions leads him on a path of self destruction transforming him from a respected, honourable man to a virtual stranger shamed and broken by his own actions.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is best known for Hollywood films including The Perfect Storm, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, The Abyss, The Colour of Money, Scarface and Consenting Adults. Her stage credits include Man of La Mancha, Twelfth Night and, most recently in London, the 2004 Donmar Warehouse revival of Grand Hotel.

A View from the Bridge is directed by Lindsay Posner – whose revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel starring Lesley Garrett transfers to the West End’s Savoy Theatre this December – designed by Christopher Oram, lit by Peter Mumford and produced by Kim Poster for Stanhope Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions. No further casting has yet been announced.

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