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Apr 02, 1985 | ISBN 9780140481938 Buy
Apr 02, 1985 | ISBN 9781101664940 Buy
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Apr 02, 1985 | ISBN 9780140481938
Apr 02, 1985 | ISBN 9781101664940
“one of the most important plays of our time” –Howard Taubman, The New York TimesIn 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.
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of… More about Arthur Miller
“one of the most important plays of our time” –Howard Taubman, The New York Times“Few plays could be less seasonal — but more of the moment — than Arthur Miller’s 1964 one-act about a group of men gathered in a war zone, wondering if their identity papers will save them or condemn them.” — The Chicago Tribune
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