In APT's 'A View From the Bridge' a political power struggle gets personal

By Lindsay Christians, The Capital Times

August 22, 2017

SPRING GREEN — As the country reacts to increasingly vocal white nationalists, it’s striking how much Eddie Carbone sounds like one of them.

Eddie’s not the type to rally — he’s Italian American, a dockworker in Red Hook, Brooklyn. But Eddie’s sense of entitlement and the deep-seated fear that he will be disrespected, left behind and irrelevant, sound exactly the same.

More topical than ever, Arthur Miller’s 1955 Cold War drama “A View from the Bridge” is having a bit of a renaissance. Jim DeVita headlines American Players Theatre’s production in the indoor Touchstone Theatre, an exceptional performance where control is the flip side of desire.

Miller drew from Greek tragedy in crafting Eddie Carbone, a flawed protagonist who believes his love and generosity entitles him to obedience from his wife Bea (a steely Colleen Madden) and attention from his pretty young niece, Catherine (Melisa Pereyra, brightly sweet).

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