Arthur Miller’s suppressed script, The Hook, receives its world première—in the playwright’s centenary year—at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Royal & Derngate Northampton.
Adapted for the stage by Emmy Award-winning writer Ron Hutchinson, the play is at the Everyman from July 1-25 following its run in Northampton from June 5-27.
Amidst the political tensions of 1950s America, The Hook was suppressed by the FBI for fear that it could cause unrest in New York's dockyards. Sixty years on, Brooklyn's epic waterfront will come alive on 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.