'Bridge' perhaps Miller's best
By GENELLE RICHARDS Kansan Staff Writer
Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" opens in the Experimental Theatre tonight and runs through Dec. 19. It reopens Jan. 6 and runs through Jan. 10.
Director B. J. Myers, assistant
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"In some ways it is like his other dramas and in many ways it is more tightly written and more meaningful," she said.
instructor of speech and drama,
says it is "perhaps Miller's best."
The play works out the destiny of a man and ends in futility. One must watch, understand and
Comparing the play to that of Greek drama, Miss Myers said that it is not just a drama of the common man.
ture. It is related to Greek tragedy through Alfieri, the lawyer, who narrates the drama and who
The play is the tragedy of man and the forces of nature and cul-
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"It appears very early what is going to happen to Eddie Carbone." Miss Myers said. "I think tragedy comes in because we realize the impossibility of changing the course of destiny. So it is an 'everyman' tragedy, a universal tragedy."
The rather complicated plot revolves around the Brooklyn docks in the Italian section of the city. Eddie raises his niece and unknowingly falls in love with her.
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The niece then falls in love with another man, Ropolpho, and Eddie develops hatred for Ropolpho. He feels the only way to split them would be to turn Ropolpho over to immigration officials since he has no papers. Eventually Eddie destroys himself because he realizes what he has done.
An unusual aspect of the play comes from the raised stage which goes up at an angle.
The leads are: Edie Carbone, G. J. Koellsted, Massapequa, N.Y. senior; Beatrice, Carol Shriver, Kansas City junior; Catherine, Cathy Elliot, Kansas City, Mo. freshman; Alfieri, Bill Beevar, Decorah, Iowa graduate student; Marco, Steve Goodman, Shawnee Mission sophomore; and Ropolpho, Rick Daniels, Prairie Village freshman.
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