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A View From the Bridge
Dennis, MA, October 17, 2005 - Presented by Eventide Arts
Gertrude Lawrence Stage
Dennis Union Church, Rt. 6 A, Dennis
508-396-8588; www.eventidearts.org
Written by Arthur Miller and directed by Ellis Baker. A View From the Bridge, first produced in 1955, offers Miller's familiar mix of the political and personal. The Carbone family represents the kind of local heroes he loves best. Hardworking Eddie, an Italian-American longshoreman living in Brooklyn, has a decent job and a loving wife, Beatrice. The Carbones have raised their 17-year-old niece, Catherine, since childhood. Now, just as Catherine is ripening into womanhood (a situation that is suspiciously fraught for Eddie), the generous family opens their doors to two of Beatrice's cousins from Sicily: Marco and raffish Rodolpho. This situation too is problematic. The cousins have entered the U.S. illegally and Rodolpho and Catherine soon fall in love. View is a descendant of the blood-and-lust Italian verismo tradition. One forebear might be Giovanni Verga's play, Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry), better known to us through Mascagni's opera setting. Both View and Cavalleria are big, raw stories of passion and retribution. And both can set off firecrackers in the theater -- but only in a production that's willing to go for it, to commit to the size and hot bloodedness (and even the hokum) without apology. Tickets $15 in advance; $17 at the door. Performances October 14-30, November 4-6 Friday & Saturdays at 7:30 PM; Sundays at 3 PM
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