A late decision to go to see Arthur Miller's classic drama was well rewarded by a thought-provoking production and a powerful lead performance from Jonathan Guy Lewis as Eddie Carbone, whose world falls apart when two of his wife's cousins arrive as illegal immigrants to seek work in the New York dockyards; he blames them for his troubles, as one takes his too-beloved niece and the other undermines his position as strong-man of the house, despite the truth being that the cracks were already appearing in the Carbone household - but scapegoating the immigrant was as prevalent in 1955 as it is now.
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