Ein Blick von der Brücke

In the organizer's words:

by Arthur Miller
translated from the English by Alexander F. Hoffmann and Hannelene Limpach / Directed by Eric de Vroedt

Red Hook, Brooklyn: a shabby harbor district. Eddie Carbone, a laborer, lives here with his wife Beatrice and his seventeen-year-old niece Catherine, an orphan. Then Marco and Rodolfo arrive in the country. Illegal immigrants, both cousins of Beatrice. Eddie hides them in his house. But when Catherine falls in love with Rodolfo and they want to get married, he loses control. His love for Catherine is no longer just paternal. But who can he admit this to? Least of all to himself. Consumed by jealousy and despair, Eddie begins to destroy everything. Arthur Miller's two-act play is set among New York's Italian immigrants. Eddie Carbone's patriarchal, proletarian world is narrow; there is no way out of it. The parallels to the fate of today's migrants are obvious. But the questions Miller asks go beyond this: they point to fate and entanglement, guilt and dependency. The well-known Dutch playwright Eric de Vroedt is staging the play for the first time in Frankfurt.