A View from the Bridge " review
Royal Exchange, ManchesterFew things signify New York quite so succinctly as a cast-iron fire hydrant. And nothing suggests a rough, unkempt outer borough of New York more than a hydrant standing in a pool of filthy, rust-coloured water.James Cotterill's basin-like set drains towards a central sluice; Eddie Carbone, the longshoreman who snitches his own family to the immigration authorities, is condemned as "a rat wh…