The second, for Best Revival of a Play, no doubt encapsulates the timely merits of this timeless play. The first went to Belgian director Ivan van Hove for Best Direction of a Play. This past June this same production deservedly took home two Tony awards. The award-winning Young Vic production of this powerful show, now running at the Ahmanson Theatre, adeptly handles each of these issues with tactful passion. Written in 1956, as the playwright himself and many of his friends and colleagues were being summoned to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, it is also a strong rebuke to informing as part of the emergent McCarthyite culture. The show is a Greek-style tragedy covering diverse issues including homoeroticism in a hyper-masculine proletariat, immigration to America and the implicit intergenerational politics of it, and the claustrophobic social constraints of poverty. LOS ANGELES – To call Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge a loaded show would be all too accurate.
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