Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre Presents Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

Brave New World Repertory Theatre, the Brooklyn-based theatre company that first won acclaim with To Kill A Mockingbird staged on the front porches of Victorian Flatbush in 2005, is pleased to present Arthur Miller'sA View From The Bridge onboard the Waterfront Barge Museum in Red Hook Brooklyn, where the play is set, May 31-June 24.

Brave New World's immersive production, onboard the covered century old barge docked in Red Hook, will involve the audience in a classic domestic drama about a longshoreman named Eddie Carbone, his wife Beatrice and their orphaned niece Catherine. When Beatrice's undocumented relatives arrive from Italy to work the docks, conflict grows between Eddie and cousin Rodolpho. The intimacy of the Waterfront Museum space, with the audience merely feet away from the action, will serve to drive home the tragic events of the story.

The play is especially timely, says Claire Beckman, BNW's co-founder/producing artistic director who is also playing Beatrice. "Eddie Carbone is a flawed Everyman like most of Miller's leading men," she says, "but he is also xenophobic, homophobic, patriarchal, white and working class. He does his fair share of 'mansplaining,' while he struggles with inappropriate feelings for his 17 year-old niece. He checks every box for the tragically flawed American Male in 2018."

Director Alex Dmitriev, whom Beckman first met 30 years ago in another production of View, says the intimate setting aboard the Waterfront Museum will let in the tragedy of the story, "allowing the audience in Miller's words 'to strike a particular note of astonishment at the way in which, and the reasons for which, a man will endanger and risk and lose his very life.'"

Brave New World Rep Presents

Arthur Miller's

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

First Preview - Thursday, May 31st at 8pm

Opening Night - Friday, June 1st at 8pm

Saturday Evening Performances: June 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd at 8pm

Sunday Matinee Performances: June 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th at 2pm

Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/990188

THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM
290 Conover Street

Red Hook, Brooklyn

Transportation:

http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/directions

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