A View From The Bridge Analysis

Theatre Elements of A View From the Bridge The play A View from the Bridge, directed by and text by Playwright Arthur Miller is a realistic and loud production. The production is performed at John Jay College at The Gerald Lynch Theatre. The script of the play is realistic and powerfull in part by its telling of the assumed family roles of the 20th century and how love with jealousy can lead to ones own death. The play is spoken in a Brooklyn, New York accent. The cast were culling and defyingly outspoken in their roles. Traditinal and altrusitic is the setting of this play, it takes play in a Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the loving from of Eddie Carbones home. All of these elements come together and form a production that tells of a man unwilling

If anyone was falling asleep at the opening scene, they were certainly woken up by this. The scence had about 20 people in it. Opening in narration the ;awyer a tall brood old man takes us on a journey back in time. He elaborates this is a time where he wishes he and intellegent mand could have done soemthing about Eddie carbone, but was powerless to do so. Eddie, his wife Beatrics,a dn neice Catherine seemed like the typical sterotype of the people in Red Hook. It did feel as though we were sitting in family room with them the

The set was a desk, and the entrance to the house on some some lifted platforms on what apperaed to be pine 2x6 wood siding screwed to the raised platforms. Teh were the livng room table, eddies chair, a tv, and a record palyer. The were two prjection screening the background supporting the setting of the play by often changing through images of the Manhattan Bridge and NYC neighborrhoods. The intent was clear that this play is taking place in NYC. This costume design was so simle, butthey definalty got it right. The dressing was excatly like how the poor working fmaily n Brooklyn dressed in the 50s. They used simple clothes that would be the style of the times. These costumes had everything to do with the time of the play origin. They were dressed for a set the was an old fashioned Italian