In the play Eddie Carbone, the longshoreman who has betrayed his daughter's lover to the police, is stabbed during the brawl which followed his arrest.
In gauzy greys and blues a lone longshoreman paddles solemnly, the Battersea shore a faint silhouette.
Directed by Ivo van Hove, a Belgian who is fast becoming known further afield, it is a striking new take on Miller's work .A View from the Bridge" tells the story of Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American longshoreman living in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, calls this "getting in touch with your inner longshoreman".
After hearing a young longshoreman named Jack Olsen call for a major strike on San Francisco's waterfront, Tillie and Abe Goldfarb moved there to help support the strikers.
At the centre of the film, which is widely recognized as a masterpiece, was Brando's portrayal of Terry Malloy, a longshoreman and former boxer who testifies in court against the mob-controlled union.
A Memory of Two Mondays and another short play, A View from the Bridge (a story of an Italian-American longshoreman whose passion for his niece destroys him), were staged on the same bill in 1955.
Even when he eventually found employment as a longshoreman (and got his all-important union credentials), the work wasn't consistent.
Elba describes him as a longshoreman with a military background.
Reeve began graduate work at Columbia University, while working as a longshoreman and a jobbing actor.
Family: The son of a longshoreman and the eldest of three children.
