A Bridge, Globe and Pride
My busy weekend started out with a visit to Dominic West's version of Eddie in A View from the Bridge . A fairly traditional interpretation, what I did find interesting was that Eddie's increasingly toxic behaviour was still being laughed at by the audience, which I found really strange. In the second half, the first kiss got the appropriate hiss/gasp of shock, but the second one, which is surely one of the cruxes of the play, got some gasps but also quite a lot of laughter - what was that about? Apart from that, the modern resonances around immigration and fragile working class masculinity still hold I think. I liked Callum Scott Howell's portrayal of Rodolpho too, a proud man who refuses to conform to the stereotypes and hostility he faces as an illegal immigrant, although his italian accent was a bit flaky. In this version I felt a fair bit of sympathy for Eddie who doesn't understand himself, living in a world he doesn't understand, and I think that is ...