The Hook review " stylish premiere of Arthur Miller's waterfront drama
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonJames Dacre's atmospheric production masks the deficiencies of a politically charged story that rattled early-50s America and caught the attention of the FBIIn 1955, Arthur Miller wrote A View from the Bridge, his great play about the community of longshore men, or dockers, many of them recent immigrants from Italy, who worked the Brooklyn piers. Four years previously, while in Hollyw…