The lawyer narrator tells us we’ll watch a story “run its bloody course” and so it does. Eddie, a middle aged man in love with his young niece, breaks every code and yet we end up mourning his death.

“He allowed himself to be wholly known,” says the lawyer in the sign-off speech and by then Bernard Hill has captured the dissolution of someone who’d begun the action a solid family man.

The play progresses from the domestic to the mythic and in Miller’s first act jokes and aphorisms are squandered. The problem is mostly accent because an all-Brit cast can only translate Brooklyn whaddyawhaddya into what-do-you-what-do-you.

The acting, the set, the music and lighting emphasise the threat that the lawyer warned of. Joseph Fiennes, an indecently handsome actor with definite sixth form appeal, brought lightness where lightness was needed, playing the immigrant lover as part new world spiv part old world shy. There’s a touch of ambiguity in his performance, just a touch of the gay.

Until March 4. (0117 987 7877) then Birmingham (0121 236 4455). Runs 2 hrs 30 mins.