A View From The Bridge

Saturday, 24 January 2009 - Saturday, 16 May 2009
Times : 14:30 - 16:40 19:30 - 21:40

Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, Strand, WC2N 4BG

How Much: £53.00 (Highest Price) , £33.00 (Lowest Price)

Three Hollywood stars take to the stage at the Duke of York's for this revival of one of Arthur Miller's most famous plays. Wouldn't you know, it's also tremendously controversial and sexually charged, concerned as it is with the growing lust of a tough dock worker for an orphan who has been entrusted into the care of his wife. The incestuous themes saw it banned in Britain in 1956.

This may be the first time we've seen Hollywood stars in the West End playing something that's genuinely bleak and depressing. (Unless you count John Hannah. Which we don't.) Ken Stott (Rebus, Charlie Wilson's War) plays the doomed longshoreman Eddie Carbone. Hayley Atwell (The Duchess, Brideshead Revisited) is the saucy orphan. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Scarface) is the wife. That's a stellar cast and the play itself is brilliant, if brutal.

This springtime, forget your own troubles and let the A list actors and unsurpassed realism of Miller transport you into a world that is a lot worse than your own. Pure downward escapism!