Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The great tragedy of A View from the Bridge is that lurking behind Arthur Miller\u2019s searing play is a happier story: one in which 1950s longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his wife\u2019s Sicilian cousins to Brooklyn and delights in the love that springs up between one of the men, Rodolpho, and his niece Catherine. But economic circumstance, deep cultural conditioning and catastrophic personal flaws mean that can never be. The tension between what is and what could have been drives the play and is made visible at every beat in Lindsay Posner\u2019s beautifully judged, crystal-clear new production.We see it in Dominic West\u2019s superb Eddie, eyes like bullets, face like thunder, as he wrestles with feelings for his niece that he dare not even articulate and has no idea how to control. We see it too in Kate Fleetwood\u2019s excellent Beatrice, the lines of her drawn face tightening as she struggles in vain to impress on her husband the folly of his attachment. And we see it in Pierro Niel-Mee\u2019s fine Marco, a man, like Eddie, forged in a grimly patriarchal society with a strict understanding of what a man is, and baffled and bruised by the hand life has dealt him.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s an old-fashioned production in many respects, plainly staged in period costumes on Peter McKintosh\u2019s flexible wooden set. But Posner wisely trusts Miller and the cast to scope out the psychological depths of the characters. And while his staging remains pinned, resolutely, in 1950s Brooklyn, this story of immigrants, the desperate conditions that drive them and the suspicions that greet their arrival, feels all too timely. There\u2019s a constant sense of being watched, of a society riven with resentment and hostility and a visceral need to belong. When the dam finally breaks and the violence that has been simmering erupts, what Eddie bellows at the world is \u201cI want my respect.\u201dThat\u2019s a cry that we still recognise: that perplexed sense of being cheated. West deftly allies it here with a tragic study in fragile masculinity. His Eddie is at base an amiable, solid sort: a man who has felt certain of himself but who cannot handle losing control, cannot admit that his feelings have become wrong, cannot stomach that his code has let him down and that what he sees in Nia Towle\u2019s lovely, hopeful Catherine and Callum Scott Howells\u2019 funny, charming Rodolpho is the future.\u00a0It\u2019s not a revelatory staging, as was Ivo van Hove\u2019s groundbreaking production a decade ago, and it does fall foul of the melodramatic creakiness of some of the plot twists. But few playwrights can match Miller\u2019s ability to combine astute political analysis with poignant humanity and, flaws and all, this richly acted production still hits home.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u00a0To August 3, trh.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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