Amidst the political tensions of 1950s America, Arthur Miller’s The Hook was suppressed by the FBI for fear that it could cause unrest in New York’s dockyards. Now, to mark the centenary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s birth, the Everyman & Playhouse and Royal & Derngate co-produce the world premiere of Miller’s ‘play for the screen’ adapted for the stage by Emmy award-winning Ron Hutchinson.
Sixty years on, the dockyards of Brooklyn’s epic waterfront will come alive on the Everyman stage for the extraordinary story of Marty Ferrara, a longshoreman who challenges the mobsters and gangs of ’50s New York and takes a stand against the corruption he witnesses from the authorities who control the docks.
The story of a close-knit community grappling with a world of crime and punishment, of changing industry and immigration from abroad, The Hook is a study in integrity and betrayal, charting one man’s struggle for meaningful change.
A Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Royal & Derngate, Northampton co-production
An enormously thought-provoking and stimulating evening out
Morning Star
Controversial, morally rooted, significant and – above all – absorbing and thought provoking
Purple Revolver
PHOTOS

CAST

Joseph Alessi
Louis

Séan Aydon
Little Dominick

Tom Canton
Sleeper

Tim Chipping
Meathead

Sean Jackson
Piggy

Sean Murray
Rocky

Paul Rattray
Enzo

Jamie Sives
Marty

Susie Trayling
Therese

Jem Wall
Farragut

Ewart James Walters
Darkeyes
COMPANY
Arthur Miller
Writer
Ron Hutchinson
Stage Adaptation
James Dacre
Director
Patrick Connellan
Designer
Charles Balfour
Lighting Designer
Isobel Waller-Bridge
Composer
Tom Mills
Sound Designer
Nina Dunn
Video Designer
Struan Leslie
Movement Director
Terry King
Fight Director
Charmian Hoare
Dialect Coach
Jesse Jones
Assistant Director
Siobhan Bracke
Casting Director
Steven Bradshaw, Adam Byrne, Eric Dean, David Dixon, Kevin Foott, Margaret Gill, Christopher Grundy, Lina Jankauskite, Jackie Jones, Sarah Kelly, Hannah McGowan, Kagan Plant, John Purcell, John Smith, Stephen Turner, Samantha Walton, Curtis Wilson
Community Ensemble