It’s been some time since we’ve seen Miller’s tragedy unfold on a Sydney stage – since Iain Sinclair’s spare staging at the Old Fitzroy in 2017 (revived in 2019). Then again, familiarity with this work does nothing to blunt its impact. This New Theatre production does a commendable job with this timeless classic – one that (thanks to ICE raids on migrants in the United States and the rise of anti-migrant sentiment more generally) collapses the distance between the past and the present.

Narrated as a flashback by the local lawyer, Alfieri (Elena Pavli), and set in the close-knit Italian-American community of Brooklyn’s Red Hook in the 1950s, A View from the Bridge centres on longshoreman Eddie Carbone, who lives with his wife, Beatrice, and their orphaned niece, Catherine, whom he has raised as a daughter and watches like a hawk.

Alex Bryant-Smith (right) and ensemble in New Theatre’s A View from the Bridge. Photo © Bob Seary

Disruption arrives in the form of Beatrice’s two undocumented Sicilian cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, seeking work and a better life in America. As Catherine falls in love with the charismatic Rodolpho, Eddie’s growing...