TEHRAN – Iranian voice actor Nasser Mamduh has said that he plans to try his hand at stage directing with Arthur Miller’s play “A View from the Bridge”.

Speaking to the Persian service of IRNA on Saturday, he said that he had played the role of the narrator in the play, which was directed by Parviz Bahram in the 1960s.

By staging the play, Mamduh plans to pay tribute to Bahram, who passed away several years ago.  

In this production, he will repeat the role he played in Bahram’s performance. 

The play translated by Manijeh Mohamedi will be staged during autumn, he said.

In “A View from the Bridge”, Miller explores the intersection between one man’s self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate. 

Set among Italian-Americans on the Brooklyn waterfront, “A View from the Bridge” is the story of longshoreman Eddie Carbone. When his wife’s cousins arrive as illegal immigrants from Italy, he is honored to take them into his house. 

But when his niece begins to fall in love with one of them Eddie grows increasingly suspicious, eventually precipitating his violation of the moral and cultural codes of his community and leading to the play’s tragic finale. 

With its examination of the themes of sexuality, responsibility, betrayal and vengeance, the play is vintage Miller and a modern classic.

The play was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with “A Memory of Two Mondays” at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. 

The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised and extended the play to contain two acts; this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar.

The two-act version premiered in the New Watergate theater club in London’s West End under the direction of Peter Brook on October 11, 1956.

Photo: Voice actor Nasser Mamduh in an undated photo. (ISNA/Ali Taqavi)

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