Ivo van Hove wastes no time getting right to the incest theme in his Young Vic staging of “A View from the Bridge,” which opened Thursday at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre.
Most directors wait a few minutes into the Arthur Miller drama before telegraphing Eddie Carbone’s sexual desire for his niece, Catherine. (It happens when she lights his big cigar.) Van Hove is not most directors. His Catherine (Phoebe Fox) jumps up on Eddie (Mark Strong) the moment he arrives home, wrapping her legs around his waist to hug him.
This posture is later repeated when Catherine loses her virginity to Rodolpho (Russell Tovey), one of the Sicilian immigrants Eddie and his wife, Beatrice (Nicola Walker), have offered refuge from the immigration authorities.