BAFTA winner Dominic West has been announced as the star of a revival of Arthur Miller’s classic A View from the Bridge.
The actor, whose grandparents were Irish, will lead the production directed by Lindsay Posner which will run at Theatre Royal Bath’s intimate Ustinov Studio in February 2024.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Miller is one of the most highly regarded American playwrights of the twentieth century.
The play, which he released in 1955 tackles one man’s place in the close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.
West, who lives in Glin Castle in Limerick, with his wife Catherine, who is the heir of the estate, plays Eddie Carbone in the production.
An outwardly straightforward man with a strong sense of decency, for Carbone it is a privilege to welcome his wife’s Italian cousins to the land of freedom.
But as his niece Catherine falls for one of the visitors, Eddie struggles to control his fierce jealousy, tormented by his own barely concealed lust for the girl.
Dominic West will star in the production in 2024West’s thirty-year acting career has included roles in some of the most iconic television series, from his award-winning portrayal of Jimmy McNulty in The Wire to Charles, Prince of Wales in The Crown.
Since making his film debut opposite Ian McKellen in Richard III in 1995, he has appeared in movies as diverse as Oscar-winning musical Chicago, historical drama Downton Abbey: A New Era, provided voices in Disney Pixar’s Finding Dory and played real-life activist Jonathan Blake in the multi-award-winning Pride.
Director Posner returns to A View from the Bridge following his 2009 Olivier Award-nominated revival.
Adding to a long career directing for the Royal Court, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida Theatre, The Old Vic, The Young Vic and across the West End, Posner’s recent credits for Theatre Royal Bath Productions include Noises Off, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf starring Elizabeth McGovern and Dougray Scott, Farewell Mister Haffmann, and upcoming productions of The Deep Blue Sea with Tamsin Greig and The Lover/The Collection with David Morrisey.
A View from the Bridge was first performed as a one-act verse drama on Broadway in 1955 before being revised for its West End premiere a year later, directed by Peter Brook and starring Richard Harris and Anthony Quayle.
The play has since been produced for stage, film, television, radio and as an opera, starring many notable actors and winning numerous awards.
