Incident at Vichy: A Play
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Incident at Vichy: A Play Details
About the Author Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 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 and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock. He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter's Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Read more
Reviews
I wasn’t familiar with this play by Arthur Miller, but having read and seen productions of his work, I decided to read it and was not disappointed.It contains brilliant dialogue and raises universal moral questions on the nature of humanity, cruelty, racism and moral dilemmas. The characters awaiting interrogation in Nazi occupied France in 1942 find themselves in a theatre of the absurd that was frighteningly real. The action is largely psychological and the characters who speak are far from caricatures and express a wide range of reactions to their situation.After reading the play, I watched a filmed version which was very well acted.
