"one of the most important plays of our time" --Howard Taubman, The
New York Times
In Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the
collaborationist authorities and made to wait in a building that may be
a police station. Some of them are Jews. All of them have something to
hide--if not from the Nazis, then from their fellow detainees and,
inevitably, from themselves. For in this claustrophobic antechamber to
the death camps, everyone is guilty. And perhaps none more so than those
who can walk away alive.
In Incident at Vichy, Arthur Miller re-creates Dante's hell inside
the gaping pit that is our history and populates it with sinners whose
crimes are all the more fearful because they are so recognizable.