‘A View from the Bridge’ “is more relevant today than when Miller wrote it in 1955”

Mexico City. A story about passion and fragility American dream is the one that addresses Panorama from the bridgea work by Arthur Miller (New York, 1915-Roxbury, 2005) considered one of the most memorable dramas in American theater.

Directed by Antonio Castro and with a cast headed by Roberto Sosa, Rodrigo Murray and Monserrat Marañón, it is running at the Teatro Helénico until August 18, with performances from Wednesday to Sunday, under the production of the Sociedad Artística Sinaloense (SAS).

The production integrates elements of Greek tragedy to tell the story of Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman who lives with his wife Beatrice and his niece Catherine, for whom he harbors a deep carnal desire. After giving asylum to two immigrants who arrive in the United States without documents in search of American dreama series of passionate love situations will trigger a tragic ending.

It is a work written in 1955, in which Miller portrays what he experienced as a young man when he was a longshoreman in the port (of Brooklyn) and lived with Sicilian immigrants. When I reread it, I was struck by the fact that it shows an accurate portrait of the current conditions of undocumented immigrants.said Antonio Castro, who considered that bringing it to the stage It is a great challengesince it is about a choral score of great characters.

According to Castro, this piece It is more current today which was in 1955, when Miller wrote it, and clarified that what drives the staging is precisely the desire to put this work into dialogue with contemporary reality.

“The topics that it touches on Panorama from the bridgefor better or worse, are still very much alive. The difficult experience of immigration illegalthe phenomena of acculturation, the desire for social mobility, those consumerist fantasies of capitalism that force us to define ourselves through the products we consume, that complex family universe where there is a lot of violence, abuse, a self-destructive toxic masculinity; all these themes are in this work written 70 years ago.”

At a press conference, he stressed that the logic of the work creates a metaphor that can refer not only to the experience of immigrants at that time, but also to any moment, which is why the temporal and geographical references were removed from the original text, translated into Spanish by the Catalan Eduardo Mendoza, winner of the 2016 Cervantes Prize.

Human values

For Roberto Sosa, the greatness of this work by Arthur Miller, who won the Pulitzer Prize, is that it allows today’s youth to connect with the validity of the text, “which speaks of human values, of loyalty, of the need to belong, of the patriarchal issue, of the need to love and be loved, as well as of being able to express what is inside one’s heart, soul, and thought.

My character (Eddie Carbone) has a hard time talking about what he feels and I think that many young people today have a hard time talking about their feelings. So there are many points of connection and I think that is precisely where the validity and universality of the text lies, as it speaks to us all.

According to the actor, it was a gift to face the character he plays, since he confronts, through his family and work relationships, his impulses, in addition to questioning his moral and ethical structure in relation to his family and himself.

“It’s a character that I’m really enjoying getting to know and getting to know, his emotions, feelings and reactions, and doing so while being supported by a wonderful team, of which I’m very happy to be a part.

“I feel that they continue Falling Twentiesthat many things continue to be revealed in each passage, in each text, in each pause, in each silence, in each scene; it is a work that is structured with mastery by Arthur Miller. I have always said that, as an actor, when the texts are not difficult to learn, it is because they are well written, and there are many of those texts here,” added Roberto Sosa.

According to Rodrigo Murray, It is a play that says much more than just the words and in which we identify with all the characters in an alarming way. When we see ourselves reflected in the theatre something fantastic happens and it is no longer necessary to go to the psychoanalyst..

The rest of the cast is made up of young actors Estephany Hernández, Martín Peralta, Jonathan Ontiveros, Ricardo Razco and Ernesto Rocha. Performances are from Wednesday to Friday at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. at the Teatro de las Artes of the Centro Cultural Helénico (1500 Revolución Avenue, Guadalupe Inn neighborhood).