A view from the bridge

After the great theatrical successes of this last season, the actor and director Massimo Popolizio is back on stage at the Argentina Theater with A view from the bridge, Arthur Miller's masterpiece, a dramatic fresco of 1950s New York.

Set in a community of Sicilian immigrants in Brooklyn, A View from the Bridge is a drama of jealousy: the protagonist is the Italian emigrant Eddie Carbone, a New York dock worker who lives in Brooklyn with his wife Beatrice and their eighteen-year-old niece Catherine, of whom is morbidly jealous. Overwhelmed by this incestuous erotic passion for Catherine, when he hosts Marco and Rodolfo, relatives of his wife and clandestine immigrants to the United States from Sicily, he cannot bear that a mutual interest arises between his niece and Rodolfo; the rivalry between the two men has in fact a tragic outcome and it is Eddie himself who becomes the victim of his own obsession.

The always current text focuses on a series of burning issues such as the escape from poverty, the tensions of illegal immigration, the hunt for foreigners and the morbid affections that can destroy a family.

With Valentina Sperlì, Michele Nani, Raffaele Esposito, Lorenzo Grilli, Gaja Masciale, Felice Montervino, Marco Mavaracchio, Gabriele Brunelli.

Photo credits: courtesy of the Argentina Theater official site