First and foremost the hardest part to deal with is the over use of sex. Yet it is not about where it is, its about where it is going. It simply does not know if it wants to be good or not. Once you can get beyond that element you can begin to examine the actual plot. He wrote A View From The Bridge instead.A conundrum. When studio heads demanded the systemic corruption on the docks be attributed to Communism instead of The Mob, Miller pulled the plug, uninterested in writing "red scare" propaganda. Panto was kidnapped on a local street, murdered by The Mob and his body dumped in New Jersey. It was inspired by the true story of Pete Panto, a young dockworker who stood up to the corrupt Mafia-connected union leadership. A stage version was produced at the UK's Northampton Theatre Royal in 2015.
The screenplay of The Hook, arguably the template for On The Waterfront, lay untouched for almost seventy years until British designer Patrick Connellan unearthed the original material, including Miller's handwritten notes. Owner Tone Balzano Johansen says, "Supporting and creating culture is part of our history." Red Hook's legendary century-old longshoremen hangout, Sunny's Bar, is the featured community sponsor of The Hook. BNW has previously produced acclaimed productions of two other Miller classics: The Crucible in 2010 and The American Clock in 2011, in addition to View in 2018. Back-breaking work which made New York the world's richest and most important harbor.Both BNW and Beckman have a history with Arthur Miller, arguably Brooklyn's greatest 20th century playwright. The play gives a closer look at the tightly-knit working class community doing the dangerous work of loading and unloading the ships. It is also the classic tool of a longshoreman an extension of his arm, a claw for gripping heavy crates and sacks of goods - or for use in a fight. The Hook of the title is Red Hook, Brooklyn. We are thrilled to be partnering with Captain Dave again, as we continue our dramatic explorations of the waterfront." "David introduced the UK team to me and Brave New World Rep. After this dramatic prologue, the actors will lead the audience onto the barge." Beckman hopes the immersive setting will viscerally capture the fight for human dignity that is the central theme of the play.īeckman credits David Sharps, director and captain of The Waterfront Museum "for bringing Miller's story to the US.
79 railroad barge, with the audience gathered on the pier, the way longshoremen waited to for work selection at the 'Shape Up'. Of The Hook, she says "The performances will begin in front of 100-year-old Lehigh Valley No.
The Hook captures the life and death struggle on the docks where the ever-present danger to the workers and their families was both from the job itself and the mobsters who controlled the docks." View is more of a domestic drama within the same gritty world of the waterfront. The staged readings of The Hook serve as kickoff of BNW's Arthur Miller Red Hook Festival 2019, which also features a return engagement of their sold-out, acclaimed 2018 production of A View From The Bridge in September 2019.Ĭlaire Beckman co-founder/producing artistic director of BNW says "The Hook is an invaluable complementary piece to A View From The Bridge, which we are remounting in September onboard The Waterfront Museum. The performances are set for Saturday June 22 and Sunday June 23 at 7pm. Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre (BNW) will present two site-specific developmental staged readings of The Hook, adapted by Brooklyn-based writer Ron Hutchinson from Arthur Miller's unproduced screenplay and directed by Claire Beckman who will use the pier, gangways and barge of The Waterfront Museum moored in Red Hook as a stage. Tickets: $25 walk up, $20 online advance, $18 senior/student.
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