Justice done to Miller in the docks

A View From the Bridge

By Arthur Miller

Gate Theatre until October 24th

Rating****

Almost 60 years since it premiered, A View From the Bridge seems eerily contemporary, concerned as it is with illegal immigration and conflicts between morality and the law.

Set in a dockland community in Brooklyn, the play charts the downfall of Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman with an unhealthy attachment to his adopted niece, Catherine. When his wife’s two cousins ...