West delivers in solid revival with accents as clotted as cannoli

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.

- Nick Curtis

The part of Eddie, whose suppressed passion for his niece presages his downfall, requires rough charm, burly physicality and in the histrionic final scenes - a capacity for anguished roaring.

In his first stage role for nine years, the star of The Wire and The Crown absolutely delivers all of the above. He has fine support from Kate Fleetwood as Eddie's pinched wife Beatrice, Nia Towle as Catherine, the disconcerted object of his affection, and It's a Sin's Callum Scott Howells as the young Sicilian who steals her away.

But though the theme of immigration makes the story feel newly contemporary, Lindsay Posner's production seems staid and old-fashioned. It sometimes inspires titters when it should provoke shock and awe.