16 February – 16 March

DOMINIC WEST will be joined by KATE FLEETWOOD and CALLUM SCOTT HOWELLS in a new production of Arthur Miller’s A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE at Bath’s Ustinov Studio.

Dominic West is one of the country’s finest and most versatile actors. His thirty-year career has included roles in some of the most iconic television series, from his award-winning portrayal of Jimmy McNulty in The Wire to Charles, Prince of Wales in The Crown. Since making his film debut opposite Ian McKellen in Richard III, he has appeared in movies as diverse as the Oscar-winning musical Chicago, historical drama Downton Abbey: A New Era and he played real-life activist Jonathan Blake in the multi-award-winning Pride.

It is also announced today that the all-star cast in this hotly anticipated production will feature Olivier and Tony Award nominee Kate Fleetwood (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Macbeth, London Road) and Callum Scott Howells, star of Channel 4’s It’s A Sin and West End phenomenon Cabaret. 

The cast also includes Nia Towle, recently seen in the West End’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane; Martin Marquez (Hotel Babylon, Les Misérables); Pierro Niel-Mee (Apple TV’s Slow Horses, Machinal and The Tempest, Ustinov Studio); Jimmy Gladdon (The Score, Theatre Royal Bath); Michael Cusick, currently in the West End in Noises Off and Rob Pomfret (A Voyage Round My Father, Theatre Royal Bath and tour, The Mousetrap, ITV’s The Bay), with further casting to be announced.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Miller is one of the most highly regarded American playwrights of the 20^th Century with work including All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and The Misfits. His timeless masterpiece A View from the Bridge is a passionate study of one man’s place in the close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.

Eddie Carbone is an outwardly straightforward man with a strong sense of decency. For Eddie it is a privilege to welcome his wife Beatrice’s Italian cousins to the land of freedom. But as his niece falls for one of the visitors, Eddie struggles to control his fierce jealousy, tormented by his own barely concealed lust for Catherine. As passions rise, they all soon learn that some freedoms have to come at a terrible price.

A View from the Bridge was first performed as a one-act verse drama on Broadway in 1955 before being revised for its West End premiere a year later, directed by Peter Brook and starring Richard Harris and Anthony Quayle. The play has since been produced for stage, film, television, radio and as an opera, starring many notable actors and winning numerous awards.

Director Lindsay Posner returns to A View from the Bridge following his 2009 Olivier Award-nominated revival. Over the past four decades, he has directed numerous productions at the Royal Court, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida Theatre, London’s Old Vic, Young Vic and across the West End. Posner’s recent credits for Theatre Royal Bath Productions include Noises Off (currently back in the West End with an all-star cast including Felicity Kendal following productions in Bath and on tour), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Elizabeth McGovern and Dougray Scott, Farewell Mister Haffmann, and upcoming productions of The Deep Blue Sea with Tamsin Greig and The Lover / The Collection with David Morrissey and Mathew Horne.

A View from the Bridge appears at the Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal Bath from Friday 16^th February to Saturday 16^th March 2024.

Photo credit: Johan Persson

 Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 or online at theatreroyal.org.uk