A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
by Arthur Miller

Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 October
7.30pm and Saturday 30 at 2.30pm
At the North Wall Arts Centre

Ticket prices: £12, £8 - concessions
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Miller crafted an extraordinary tale in this American classic – a story of desire, loyalty, immigration and justice – and his skill in handling such sensitive subjects places him in a league of his own.

Eddie Carbone is an Italian American longshoreman working on the docks of New York in the 1950s. His modest home, with his wife, Beatrice and her niece, Catherine, is in a close knit community with a skyline dominated by the Brooklyn Bridge. Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine but his feelings have become more than that of a father figure. His growing attachment to her is challenged by the arrival of Beatrice's two cousins, Marco and Rodolpho. Entering the country illegally, with the hope of leaving behind hunger and unemployment in Italy for a better life in America, they bring romance and chaos into the Carbone household. Charming Rodolpho is young, good-looking, talented – and single. Catherine instantly falls for him, and Eddie's jealousy simmers to a rage that consumes him, his family, and his world. 

Oxford Theatre Guild, the city’s leading non-professional theatre company, returns to the North Wall with Arthur Miller’s tragic masterpiece. A story of a family fighting to cope with love in all its forms, in a community that values loyalty above all .

CAST

Eddie - Adam Potterton
Beatrice - Ida Persson
Catherine - Jessica Welch
Alfieri - David Guthrie
Rodolpho - Nathan Grassi
Marco - Tim Younger
Mrs Lipari - Judith Fantozzi
Tony / Mr Lipari - Kevin Elliot
Louis / Officer - Phillip Cotterill
 
Director - Alex Nicholls
Stage Manager - Dan Whitley
Production Manager - Nathan Grassi

"clever and thughtful … very well expressed in this OTG show" – Nick Utechin, Oxford Times, on OTG's production of The American Pilot, October 2009

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited.