Oxford Theatre Guild return to The North Wall next week with Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge. A tale of desire, betrayal, immigration and justice, this Miller classic, is directed for OTG by Alex Nicholls of the Tomahawk Theatre Company.
The drama focuses on Italian-American longshoreman Eddie Carbone, working on the docks of New York in the 1950s. His modest home, with his wife, Beatrice and her niece, Catherine, is in a close-knit community. Eddie is kind to Catherine but his feelings have become more than those of a father figure.
His attachment is challenged by the arrival of Beatrice’s Italian cousins, Marco and Rodolpho. Entering the country illegally, they bring chaos into the household. Charming Rodolpho is young, good-looking, talented — and single. Catherine instantly falls for him, and Eddie’s jealousy simmers to a rage that consumes him, his family and his world. A View from the Bridge is a play with big themes contained in a claustrophobic family setting. Although the events it portrays took place half a century ago, its story of economic migrants, family and consuming jealousy still resonates today.
Alex Nicholls says: “It is a fantastic play for a director — a masterpiece of writing and action-packed, punchy and full of drama. I am sure the audience will find it an exhilarating two hours."
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