THEATRE

A View from the Bridge

Gate Theatre. Ends Oct 24 7.30pm (Sat Mat 2.30pm) Mon & Mat €25, Tues-Thurs €32, Fri-Sat €35 gate-theatre.ie

Laws and codes are negotiable things in Arthur Miller’s 1956 drama, which watches a man’s honour steadily undone by the forces of desire, under the shadows of the Brooklyn docks. Miller’s mid-20th century America more closely resembles Ancient Greece, guided by a fretful chorus in the shape of a narrating lawyer, watching Eddie Carbone (Scott Aiello), the longshoreman blind to his own longing, become a desperate man capable of ruinous betrayal. Joe Dowling’s serviceable production stays out if the way of the play, but feels too varnished to convey the depths of human ruin.