A View From The Bridge...
A View From The Bridge is a production of a famous Arthur Miller play. It is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a narrator called Alfieri (David Carey), a lawyer in the neighborhood who is like a Godfather to many residents. Eddie Carbone (Michael Egan) is the tragic protagonist. He has a complicated love for, and almost obsession with, Catherine (Aidan Jihane Gallivan) his wife Beatrice's 17 year old orphaned niece who lives in the household. The relationship is close, so close that he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolfo (Derek Dirlam) who is an illegal alien he considers "not right" in so many ways. Eddie's wife Beatrice (Roberta Gibbons) is a testament of the agony that a woman endures when her husband, who is less than the man she needs, engages in a fantasy she knows ought never be consummated. The drama that unfolds is a peek into this family's life that can make an audience squeamish because of the voyeur-like atmosphere of its gut-jolting reality.
The power of this production, directed by Allen Hamilton, is in the cast. Each actor is perfect for their role and they wrench every drop out of the blood and tears in the play. It is truly wonderful to lose oneself in a production like this such that you can quickly drift from the context that you are watching a play and morph into being one of the neighbors to this family who hears and sees things that most people would close the shutters to. It is a tragedy, for sure, and, probably and unfortunately, such a common one that it touches nearly everybody who sees it.
The power of this production, directed by Allen Hamilton, is in the cast. Each actor is perfect for their role and they wrench every drop out of the blood and tears in the play. It is truly wonderful to lose oneself in a production like this such that you can quickly drift from the context that you are watching a play and morph into being one of the neighbors to this family who hears and sees things that most people would close the shutters to. It is a tragedy, for sure, and, probably and unfortunately, such a common one that it touches nearly everybody who sees it.