‘View From the Bridge’
A screening of the National Theatre Live presentation of Arthur Miller’s play “A View From the Bridge” will take place at Guild Hall on Saturday at 7 p.m. A production of the Young Vic Theatre in London, where it sold out before it opened, the play stars Mark Strong as Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman, and is directed by Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
First produced in its current version in London in 1956, the play is driven by Eddie’s obsession with Catherine, his 17-year-old niece. The arrival from Italy of two of his wife’s cousins as illegal immigrants is at first welcomed by the Carbone family, but when one of the cousins, Rodolpho, begins dating Catherine, Eddie’s jealousy leads to tragic results.
Prior to writing “A View From the Bridge,” Miller was working on a screenplay for Elia Kazan set on the Brooklyn docks. The original film did not get made, but Kazan later directed “On the Waterfront,” set in the same milieu.
Tickets are $18, $16 for members.