01 May 2014, The Tablet

A View from the Bridge


Theatre

 
Young Vic, LondonWhile there are many plays written specifically for the Christmas season, fewer – except for the medieval mystery and Passion plays and Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade – ­thematically reflect the other major religious festival. It seemed accidentally fitting to me, though, that a new production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge should have opened just before Good Friday.Miller’s play is narrated, in what is probably the finest modern example of the problematic device of an onstage commentator, by Alfieri, a Brooklyn lawyer who once represented the now dead Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman who makes his living unloading container ships. And there is something in the attorney’s transition from an ominous but factual recoun
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