A View From The Bridge on the Tron – Glasgow Theatre Blog

Tron Theatre Company is delighted to be presenting the award-winning play A View From The Bridge written by American playwright Arthur Miller. This play is the a lot anticipated directorial debut of the Tron Theatre’s new Artistic Director Jemima Levick, which guarantees a refreshed and fashionable tackle the timeless basic about deep rooted and dangerously illicit need.

Set in Brooklyn, A View From The Bridge focuses on longshoreman, Eddie Carbone and his spouse Beatrice who welcome her cousins Marco and Rodolpho to the land of the free and into the house they share with their stunning and far liked niece Catherine. It is when certainly one of Beatrice’s cousins falls for Catherine and begins planning a future for them that Eddie’s jealous distrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one which drives him to commit the last word betrayal not solely of his household but in addition the close-knit neighborhood through which they dwell, with devastating penalties.

The play explores themes of household, belonging and the results of suppressed need, and regardless of being a narrative that pivots on questions of citizenship, immigration and the appropriate to stay in Fifties America when it was written, it resonates strongly with occasions happening in Glasgow and around the globe as we speak.

This play requires a powerful forged and that’s precisely what Jemima has created with the lead function of the possessive Eddie Carbone being performed by Mark Holgate (Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse); Maryland (Friargate Theatre); Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre)) and his spouse Beatrice Carbone is performed by Nicole Cooper who final appeared on the Tron in The Tempest in 2021 and is a twice ‘Best Female Performance’ CATS winner for Coriolanus and Medea, Bard within the Botanics (Lear’s Fool, Hedda Gabler (Bard within the Botanics); Macbeth (An Undoing) (Rose Theatre, Kingston; Theatre for a New Audience, New York; Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh)) The niece that they introduced up as their very own and Eddie’s illicit love, Catherine, is performed by Holly Howden Gilchrist who’s at the moment in her ultimate 12 months on the BA Acting course on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Holly is definitely the daughter of Kath Howden who performed the function of Beatrice on the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, the final time A View From The Bridge was staged in Scotland.

Beatrice’s cousins, and brothers – the outgoing Rodolpho who falls in love with Catherine, and the quiet Marco – are escaping poverty by illegally shifting to the US and are delivered to life by Michael Guest as Rodolpho (The Comedy of Errors (Winner: Best Ensemble CATS Awards 2022), A Christmas Carol, Red Riding Hood (Citizens Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scottish National Opera), Joke (A Play, A Pie & A Pint), Rumpelstiltskin (Platform)) and Reuben Joseph (The Outrun (Royal Lyceum Theatre); Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company); Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); Orphans, Rapunzel, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil (National Theatre of Scotland). Alfieri, the Italian American lawyer who represents either side of the neighborhood, the Atlantic and the regulation is performed by Nicholas Karimi (So Young (Traverse Theatre); Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic); Adventures With The Painted People (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Henry VI (components 2&3) (Royal Shakespeare Company)). Nicholas beforehand carried out in A View From The Bridge at York Theatre Royal and Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton within the function of Eddie.

Director Jemima Levick says of the piece:

‘A View From The Bridge is epic – a classic play originally produced in 1955 that I’m excited to re-vision for a contemporary viewers. It’s a play that hinges on themes of citizenship, immigration and the appropriate to stay, revolving round a central character whose low-level proper wing sentiments intensify and swell to serve his personal objective. Set in a dockside neighborhood, with a docker (or Longshoreman on this case) dealing with an inflow of recent immigrants and challenges to what he deems to be ‘his own’, I see A View From The Bridge as an extremely well timed piece, with a powerful resonance to Glasgow and the world as we all know it now. And having not been produced in Scotland for over ten years, it’s a bit that’s greater than prepared for reinvention.’

Arthur Miller mentioned of the play:

‘It at all times struck me that this [bridge] has commuter visitors going over all of it day…

They had been passing over this space the place this Greek drama was happening and

no person ever thought of it, no person knew about it… The entire space, the totally different

tradition that was down there was unknown to the folks on the bridge… This was an

immigrant neighborhood… They felt separated by language, by background, by the sort

of labor they did… they’d by no means correctly entered the nation, they’d no papers…

But a minimum of they bought into the nation as an alternative of ravenous.’

Arthur Miller was an acclaimed American playwright who received a number of awards for his work together with two Tony Awards and an Olivier Award for A View From The Bridge for Best Revival of a Play.

Jemima Levick joined Tron Theatre in April 2024 as the brand new Artistic Director. A View From The Bridge would be the first manufacturing she’s going to direct on this function. Jemima was, most just lately, Artistic Director for A Play, A Pie & A Pint, and has additionally been Artistic Director at Dundee Rep and Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Stellar Quines Theatre Company. She has directed over forty skilled productions throughout her profession up to now.

Originally produced in 1955, this would be the first time on over ten years that A View From The Bridge has been introduced in Scotland.

Running time approx. 120 minutes plus 20 min interval.

Recommended age – 14+ Contains violence and grownup themes.

LISTINGS INFORMATION

Venue: Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB

Dates: PREVIEWS: Fri 21 & Sat 22 Feb 7.30PM

RUN: Tue 25 Feb – Sat 15 Mar, 7.30pm

MATINEES: Wed 5 & 12 Mar and Sat 8 & 15 Mar, 2.30PM

Tickets: £14.50 (Previews), £18, £21 or £25

Box workplace: 0141 552 4267 / www.tron.co.uk

Accessible performances

Audio Described: Wed 5 Mar, 7.30pm