Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love for, and almost an obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolpho. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The two-act version premiered in the New Watergate theatre club in London's West End under the direction of Peter Brook on October 11, 1956. The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised and extended the play to contain two acts this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway.
The apartment and environment of Eddie CarboneĪ View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. Coronet Theatre (now Eugene O'Neill Theatre)
