Inspired by Pete Panto, a docker who stood up to union bosses in 1939 and was murdered, it’s a call to justice and solidarity that got Miller in trouble with Joe McCarthy and his anti-communist witch-hunters.
The film script does cast a shadow over the plot: it has a restless cinematic structure that in theatre needs to settle down and thrash out its justice themes with argument rather than imagery. In Miller style, Hutchinson ensures it also turns on a series of moral dilemmas for hero Marty (Jamie Sives).
Miller's lost tale at the docks is in ship-shape fettle: Patrick Marmion believes The Hook is well worth the wait!
We’ve waited more than 60 years for this Arthur Miller play, and it could not be more timely.
Its theme is an inglorious worm that continues to gnaw at modern life — corruption. But instead of expenses and million-dollar football bungs, we have longshoremen on the New York docks fighting mafioso union bosses.
The story is adapted by playwright Ron Hutchinson from one of Miller’s unmade Fifties film scripts.
Inspired by Pete Panto, a docker who stood up to union bosses in 1939 and was murdered, it’s a call to justice and solidarity that got Miller in trouble with Joe McCarthy and his anti-communist witch-hunters.
The film script does cast a shadow over the plot: it has a restless cinematic structure that in theatre needs to settle down and thrash out its justice themes with argument rather than imagery. In Miller style, Hutchinson ensures it also turns on a series of moral dilemmas for hero Marty (Jamie Sives).
Inspired by Pete Panto, a docker who stood up to union bosses in 1939 and was murdered, it’s a call to justice and solidarity that got Miller in trouble with Joe McCarthy and his anti-communist witch-hunters.
The film script does cast a shadow over the plot: it has a restless cinematic structure that in theatre needs to settle down and thrash out its justice themes with argument rather than imagery. In Miller style, Hutchinson ensures it also turns on a series of moral dilemmas for hero Marty (Jamie Sives).