And if Van Hove adjoins a kiss that is not in Miller’s play, it makes the scripted one that follows it all the more disturbing. Van Hove shows us the too-long embraces between Eddie and Catherine, her childish way of wrapping her legs around his waist that doesn’t seem so childish any more.
Russell Tovey, Fox and Strong: ‘Van Hove inflames what had come to seem a settled text.’ Photograph: Jan Versweyveld/Supplied But Rodolpho, who sings and dances and sews, discomfits Eddie, especially when Rodolpho fixes his attentions on Catherine. Marco is a macho sort, so he and Eddie get along fine. Conflict arrives in the bodies of Marco (Michael Zegen) and Rodolpho (Russell Tovey), Beatrice’s cousins, newly smuggled ashore from Italy. But in Ivo van Hove’s thrillingly claustrophobic version, last seen on the West End, the action all takes place in one small square – a bit like a boxing ring, a bit like a prison cell – with the audience surrounding it on three sides.Ī View from the Bridge, based loosely on a real-life incident, describes the upheaval in the home of Eddie Carbone ( Mark Strong), a career longshoreman who lives with his wife, Beatrice (Nicola Walker), and her niece, Catherine (Phoebe Fox), who has just been offered a secretarial job when the play begins. O stensibly, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge is set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a thriving port in Miller’s day and now home to troubled housing projects and hipster bakeries.
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