A View from the Bridge
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Losing the plot: when actors attack Leo Benedictus...chit-chat in the stalls really worth the drama? 'Can't you just count to 10?' ... Hayley Atwell with Ken Stott, who halted a performance of A View from the Bridge to have noisy teenagers removed from the theatre. Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex... In this article: Ian Hart, Ken Stott, A View from the Bridge, Patrick Stewart, Hayley Atwell, Hugh Jackman, and Kevin Spacey |
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Playbill.com | 2 days ago
How to Be a Good Italian Daughter to Close in December; Star Heads to Broadway
...performance at the Off-Broadway venue Dec. 13. The show is closing because actress LaVecchia has been cast in the upcoming revival of A View From the Bridge, which will mark her Broadway debut. Producer Arje Shaw plans to reopen the...
In this article: Studio Theatre and Emmy
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | 2 days ago
Ian Hart: a state-of-the-nation drama in miniature
...kind of payback for misdemeanours by punters? Ken Stott earned more praise than opprobrium earlier this year for stopping a performance of A View from the Bridge (at the same theatre) for 15 minutes in a tense stand-off with a noisy party of...
In this article: Ian Hart, Howard Barker, The History Boys, Harry Potter, Ken Stott, and Richard Griffiths
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Backstage | 2 days ago
The Glass Half-Full
But what almost pushed him out of the business was plain old stage fright. He had just been offered the lead role of Eddie Carbone in "A View From the Bridge" in a 2003 Brooklyn production. "I wasn't sure I'd take it," he recalls. "I was so...
In this article: Van Heflin, Mark Teschner, and Coca-Cola
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Celebrity Mound | 3 days ago
Scarlett Johansson's 25th Birthday Celebration
In this article: Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds
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New York Post | 3 days ago
Scarlett Johansson's NYC birthday
...1:39 AM, November 24, 2009 Posted: 12:38 AM, November 24, 2009 Scarlett Johansson, in town rehearsing for her Broadway debut in "A View From the Bridge," celebrated her 25th birthday Saturday at club Griffin on Gansevoort Street.
In this article: Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds, Mad TV, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, and Broadway
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Cristofer, Fontana, Hecht, Stoll Join Broadway's View From the Bridge
...Liev Schreiber and Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson, in her Broadway debut, in the new Broadway production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge. Gregory Mosher directs the staging, to play a limited 14-week run at the Cort...
In this article: Santino Fontana, Jessica Hecht, Arthur Miller, Liev Schreiber, and Scarlett Johansson
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Guardian Unlimited | 4 days ago
Lenny Henry wins best newcomer accolade in London Evening Standard theatre awards
...will next year be revived in the west end. He won from a particularly strong shortlist that also included Sam West (Enron), Ken Stott (A View From the Bridge) and Simon Russell Beale (The Winter's Tale) Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's "state of...
In this article: Lenny Henry, Natasha Richardson, Othello, Enron, London, Jerusalem, August: Osage County, Rachel Weisz, and Ian McKellen
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Sunday Mirror | 4 days ago
Henry to compete for theatre awards
...by Simon Russell Beale, a three-time Evening Standard Award winner, shortlisted for his "extraordinary" transformation as Leontes in A Winter's Tale and Ken Stott, as the headstrong Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge.
In this article: Lenny Henry, Enron, Juliet Stevenson, Rachel Weisz, Natasha Richardson, London, Jerusalem, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ophelia, and Hamlet
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BBC News | November 09, 2009
Henry up for stage newcomer prize
Simon Russell Beale and Ken Stott - respectively seen in West End productions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge - complete the best actor shortlist. Henry Hitchings, the Standard's chief theatre...
In this article: Enron, Othello, Rachel Weisz, Lenny Henry, Jerusalem, and A Streetcar Named Desire
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L.A. Times - Gold Derby - Oscar & Awards Blog | October 27, 2009
Scarlett Johansson debuting on Broadway in Tony-winning 'A View From the Bridge'
Scarlett Johannson will be 25 when she makes her Broadway debut this December as lovesick teenager Catharine in "A View From the Bridge." This production -- co-starring Tony Award winner Liev Schrieber ("Glengarry Glen Ross") as her lustful...
In this article: Tony Lo Bianco, Broadway, Scarlett Johansson, Arthur Miller, and Oscar
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A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway.
A View from the Bridge is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighborhood under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The area Eddie Carbone and his family live in is called "polis", a tightly knit community where neighbors are almost like family and everyone knows everything about each other. The "polis" is a poor area where all the families are in the same situation; men work at the dock and the women stay at home cooking, cleaning and caring for the children. Owing to the lack of money in the "polis", nobody can afford to leave or travel so the "polis" is the people's life and over time family rules and morals have become law in the community. Immigration laws rendered approaches to the police futile since many of the inhabitants were illegal immigrants. This built up a distinct mistrust for the law with an underlying Sicilian feeling of justice being the guide to how people of the "polis" lived their lives.
Miller's interest in writing about the world of the New York docks originated with an unproduced screenplay that he developed with Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, entitled The Hook, dealing with corruption on the Brooklyn docks. Miller has been quoted as saying that he heard the basic account that developed into the plot of A View from the Bridge from a longshoreman, who related it to him as a true story. Although the 1955 one-act production was not successful, it was revised in 1956 to become a more traditional prose play in two acts, and it is through this version that audiences are most familiar with the work today.
- Name:
- A View from the Bridge
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- Tragedy
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- Arthur Miller
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