ABOUT THE PLAY

 

The local lawyer, Alfieri, tells the story of Eddie Carbone, a head-strong longshoreman who has helped raise his wife s niece, Catherine, but has developed an unwitting sexual attraction towards her. When his wife s two cousins enter the country illegally looking for work, the Carbones take them in, but when Catherine begins dating the younger of the cousins, Rodolpho, Eddie gets jealous. Finding his insinuations of Rodolpho’s homosexuality and his warning to Catherine that Rodolpho is only after an American passport are ignored, in an act of desperation to split them up before they can marry, Eddie breaks an unwritten rule within his community by betraying both cousins to the Immigration authorities. The older brother, Marco, vows revenge, exacerbated by Eddie s refusal to admit his "crime." Out on bail Marco comes to Eddie, who challenges him to a fight to try and redeem his blackened, but when Eddie draws a knife Marco kills him with it. Eddie dies declaring his love for his wife, never having fully come to with his actions or how they led to his downfall.

 

CAST & CREATIVE

Louis - Antonio Magro

Mike - Enzo Squillino Jr

Alfieri - Allan Corduner

Eddie  - Ken Stott

Catherine -  Hayley Atwell

Beatrice -  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Marco -  Gerard Monaco

Tony -  John Moraitis

Rodolpho -  Harry Lloyd

First Immigration Officer -  Jonathan Jaynes

Second Immigration Officer -  Philip Desmeules

Mr Lipari -  John Moraitis

Mrs Lipari -  Julia Barrie

Submarine -  Peter Basham

Neighbours -  Abby Forknall, Jonathan Jaynes,

Philip Desmeules, Peter Basham

 

Author -  Arthur Miller

Director -  Lindsay Posner

Designer -  Christopher Oram

Lighting -  Peter Mumford

Composer and Sound -  Adam Cork

Design Assistant -  Chiara Stephenson

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QUOTES & REVIEWS

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Daily Express & Evening Standard & The Times & The Londonpaper & Sunday Telegraph

& Independent on Sunday

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Daily Mail & Metro & Sunday Express & Sunday Times & Mail On Sunday & The Independent & What s On Stage

 

 Stott s TOWERING PERFORMANCE will long be remembered on the West End stage…TRULY AWE-INSIPIRING Daily Express

 

 Stott demands great respect…AS POWERFUL A STAGE ACTOR AS ANY OF HIS GENERATION  Daily Mail

 

 If ever an actor was born to play Arthur Miller s Eddie Carbone … it s Ken Stott.  The London paper

 

 Mastrantonio on stage again and FULLY IN COMMAND  Daily Mail

 

A BRILLIANT and MAJESTIC play  The Sunday Times

 

Lindsay Posner s engrossing production  Metro

 

A West-End TRIUMPH that proves the best way to confront the credit crunch is simply to put on great plays and put them on superbly. Sunday Express

 

 Atwell is excellent  Daily Mail

 

 A dazzling Hayley Atwell  The London paper

 

 Posner s MENACING production   Evening Standard

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 Arthur Miller’s SPINE-CHILLING TRAGIC DRAMA  Evening Standard
 

 A GREAT play in an OUTSTANDING revival  The Independent
 

 A FIVE STAR Evening  Evening Standard “Five Best Theatre”

 

 Not to be missed  Independent on Sunday

 

 With its clear storytelling, vivid stage pictures and memorable performances, this is surely the best straight drama in the West End today  The Stage

 

 The tone is spot-on… and we are treated to an evening of theatre as rich, satisfying and alarming as any in town at the moment  What s On Stage