Mr Miller piles on the agony: Mary Ure, Brian Bedford and Anthony Quayle ... The orphan, the immigrant and the longshoreman

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Mr Miller piles on the agony: Mary Ure, Brian Bedford and Anthony Quayle ... The orphan, the immigrant and the longshoreman

Emmwood (John Musgrave-Wood) (1915-1999)

Price

£650

Signed

Signed

Medium

Ink and zippatone

Dimensions

8 ¾ x 7 inches

Illustrated

Evening Standard, 12 October 1956, 'At the Theatre' by Milton Shulman

Exhibited

'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1791-2024', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2024-January 2025, no 147

Arthur Miller’s play A View from the Bridge, directed by Peter Brook opened in London’s West End on 11 October 1956.
Milton Shulman in reviewing the first night in a piece titled ‘Mr Miller piles on the agony’ reported,

‘Peter Brook’s production with its mood music of New York sounds, its stylised groupings, casts a symbolic aura over this sombre story of primitive passion ...
Anthony Quayle grasps the part of the simple, muddled, jealousy-crazed long-shoreman with a powerful assurance and gives a memorable performance of stumbling, inarticulate passion and envy ... Mary Ure as the niece, establishes with a sure touch the bewilderment and anxiety of someone too young to understand the violence of love. Brian Bedford is excellent in the subtle and testing role of a boy baffled by the charge of homosexuality.’