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Drama on 3

Drama

Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Martin Jarvis

Alfred Molina

Hector Elizondo

Jane Kaczmarek

Melissa Benoist

Reid Scott

Matthew Wolf

Andre Sogliuzzo

Darren Richardson

Rosalind Ayres

Drama on 3: A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge

18/10/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, A View from the Bridge

Martin Jarvis directs Miller's 1955 drama. An all-star cast is led by Alfred Molina.

Martin Jarvis directs Miller's award-winning 1955 drama, with a US cast including Alfred Molina, Jane Kaczmarek, Melissa Benoist and Hector Elizondo.

Martin Jarvis directs Arthur Miller's 1955 award-winning masterpiece. Recorded in the US for Drama On 3. Alfred Molina won the BBC Drama Awards Best Actor accolade as Eddie Carbone. He leads an all-star American cast. Universal themes: family, guilt, loyalty, sexual attraction, jealousy - and love. A timeless reminder as immigrants from Syria, Eritrea, Libya currently seek new lives, new dreams. Here, it's the American one. 
Setting. An Italian-American neighbourhood near the Brooklyn Bridge, New York. 1950s.

Lawyer Alfieri (our narrator) confides to listeners there are cases where he can only watch as they run their bloody course. 
Longshoreman Eddie Carbone lives with his wife Beatrice and her orphaned niece, Catherine, in a Brooklyn tenement. He has a love of, almost an obsession with, 17 year-old Catherine. Beatrice's Italian cousins are being smuggled into the country. The family hide the illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho, while they work on the docks. Eddie's increasing suspicion and jealousy of Rodolpho's developing relationship with Catherine eventually leads to betrayal and a tragic confrontation. 

Sound design: Wesley Dewberry and Mark Holden
A Jarvis & Ayres Production.

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