![]() ![]() Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian ![]() Phoebe Fox (Catherine), Mark Strong (Eddie) and Nicola Walker (Beatrice) in A View from the Bridge at Wyndham’s theatre. It speaks directly to us and suggests that there is an Eddie Carbone lurking in all of us, just as there is a vengeful Electra and a blind Oedipus. This is not just somebody else’s family tragedy. It runs uninterrupted for two hours and leaves you as broken as the characters.įrom the opening moments in which Mark Strong’s sinewy, apparently indestructible Eddie is glimpsed showering after a shift on the waterfront pier, to the final seconds when it rains blood, this is a production that releases the play from its naturalistic trappings – and in doing so distils it and makes it seem timeless and universal. It’s like watching a runaway train hurtle towards you and being unable to move. Ivo van Hove’s revival, which ran at the Young Vic in 2014 and has now transferred to the West End, is so merciless that it creates a sickening sense of awe. ![]() ![]() But you’ve never seen it staged like this. T here have been plenty of productions of Arthur Miller’s Greek tragedy-inspired drama about Eddie Carbone, the Italian-American longshoreman who becomes jealously fixated on his niece, Catherine. ![]()
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