Overview

By Arthur Miller

A searing tragedy of classical proportions by one of our country’s most important contemporary playwrights. The man who gave us Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and All My Sons, turns his eye on the dockworkers of New York, in particular Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman who helps smuggle in two of his wife’s cousins into the country. When one of the two cousins begins to pursue Eddie’s teenage niece, a monstrous change creeps up on the kind and loving uncle, and the play explodes in a tragic display of violence and unconscious passions.