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A View from the Bridge
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
WHEN Dominic West stars in Lindsay Posner’s production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, you know it’s a winning ticket.
And indeed it’s a marvellous play, embracing great Shakespearean themes, within the minute proportions of one single household in one specific square mile in a working class, dockworkers’ community under Brooklyn Bridge in the 1950s. The precision could not be more exact.
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