The mob scene of 1950s New York is being brought to the stage in Nottingham this month.
On the Waterfront, is now playing at the Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday, May 3, the first time it has been staged in the UK.
This portrait of life on the docks was made famous as a multi-academy award winning film starring Marlon Brando. The
director of this production Steven Berkoff has taken up the challenge to do it justice.
He said: "Facing something so enshrined in the public consciousness (and) how to stage it and not fall helplessly in the giant shadow of the film, is a hard test for a director."
The play is the story of Terry Malloy, ex-boxer and New York docker, who makes a stand against the gangsters ruling the docks spurred on by the love of a woman and death of a friend.
It was written by Budd Schulberg with Stan Silverman and based on a 24-part series of articles in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson called Crime on the Waterfront.
Tickets range from £6 to £26.50 with both evening and matinee performances available. For tickets call Nottingham Playhouse box office on 0115 941 9419 or visit the website at
www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk.
The full article contains 218 words and appears in Ripley & Heanor News newspaper.
