PERFORMING ARTS

A Drama – Set in New York, the story follows Eddie Carbone, a tough Italian-American longshoreman living in Brooklyn with his wife Beatrice Carbone, and her comely niece, Catherine - to whom Eddie feels an overwhelming yet undeclared attraction. Two illegal immigrants, Rodolpho and Marco turn up, and rage builds in Eddie when he senses a burgeoning, mutual attraction between Rodolpho and Catherine. To divert suspicions of his own incestuous desires, he first declares Rodolpho a homosexual, then does everything in his power to ensure that Rodolpho and Marco are deported - thus setting the story up for a surprisingly grisly and shocking climax.