About the play

"A View From the Bridge" by Arthur Miller

The play is a tragedy in the form of a modern classic. The central character is a longshoreman, Eddie Carbone (John Fedele) who makes room for two of his wife's (Angela Rauscher) cousin's who are being smuggled into the country from Italy. The couple brought up their niece (Sistina Giordano), and Eddie feels he has come to love her, he thinks, as a daughter. When one of the cousins, Rudolpho (Ryan T. Scott), falls in love with the niece a monstrous change creeps into the Uncle. He is violently opposed to this romance and is not intelligent enough to realize that this opposition is not motivated as he thinks by a dislike of the boy, but, by his own too - intense love for his niece.

Cast & Crew

Director

• Frank Licato

Crew

• Julia LaVault (Stage Manager)

Details

Performance schedule

• Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 8 PM
• Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 8 PM
• Friday, March 27, 2009 - 8 PM
• Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 8 PM
• Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 3 PM (matinee)
• Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 8 PM
• Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 8 PM
• Friday, April 3, 2009 - 8 PM
• Saturday, April 4, 2009 - 8 PM
• Sunday, April 5, 2009 - 3 PM (matinee)

Buying tickets

Tickets are being sold for $20 each. Please call 201-708-6673.

Venue

Trinity Church

555 Palisades Avenue
Cliffside Park, NJ

Directions from George Washington Bridge

1. Go over the Bridge and follow signs for 46 East.
2. Continue for about ½ mile until fork.
3. Bear right at Fork (Pizza Hut on right). This becomes Bergen Blvd.
4. Turn left in ½ mile at Lafayette Avenue.
5. Continue through Anderson Avenue to Palisade Avenue.
6. Make a right onto Palisade Avenue.
7. Travel 1 1/4 miles South to 555 Palisade Ave (Trinity Church).

Directions from Lincoln Tunnel

1. Follow signs for Blvd. East.
2. Get off at exit and proceed down the hill (Hess Station on the R).
3. Make a right onto 60th Street (this becomes River Road).
4. Proceed for approximately 2 miles.
5. You will see a sign for Gorge Rd. on left.
6. Bear left onto Gorge Road and proceed uphill for approximately 1 mile.
7. Gorge Rd. becomes Palisade Ave.
8. Right at the church. 555 Palisade Avenue (Cliffside Park High School directly across the street).

About us

Italian-American Repertory Company

The Italian-American Repertory Company was founded to give Italian-American writers, directors, actors, designers and other theater crafts people and opportunity to work on productions that exhibit the culture and heritage of the Italian Americans.

IARC accomplishes for Italian-American theater artists what the Jewish Repertory Theater, The American Jewish Theater, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater - to name but a few - provide for their artists: a home and a voice.

In the same vein IARC is an arena and a sounding board for Italian-American themes and a projector of true Italian-American experiences. Too often in the past, Italian-Americans allowed others to interpret them. And too often have Italian-American artists felt the need to adjust their works to suit the opinions of non Italian-Americans,if they wished to see those works produced. The result has been a distortion of Italian-American theater artists to protray events and experiencs honestly, as they see them. The emphasis is on the positive and constructive, because that is the way Italian-Americans truly are.

Future season programs will be a mix of original plays and revivals of accredited works by Italian-Americans, or Italian authors. All productions will be in English.

IARC was founded on the belief that for the first time in the history of Italian-Americans there is a class of people able and willing to contribute to English-language Italian-American theater, able to support such a theater and no longer be without what other groups boast of.

Board of Directors

• Vincenso Ruggiero
• Clement Petrocelli
• Anthony Christiano
• Frank Guadio
• Karen Santoro
• Frank Fellone
• Lou Squitieri
• Joseph Sellitto
• Mary Ann Minucci