Dominic West settles comfortably into the role of the rumpled, fatally flawed longshoreman Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller’s 1956 drama, a tale of Italian-Americans heavily indebted to Greek tragedy.
The part of Eddie, whose suppressed, illicit passion for his niece presages his downfall, requires rough charm, burly physicality and – in the histrionic final scenes – a capacity for anguished roaring.
