Incident at Vichy (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1942
- Setting: Vichy, France
- Principal Characters: Lebeau, Bayard, Marchand, Monceau, Leduc, Von Berg
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Farce
- Subjects: Values, France or French people, 1940’s, Guilt, Victims, Anti-Semitism, Good and evil, Ethics, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish
- Locales: Vichy, France
The Play
Incident at Vichy is a one-act play that takes place in a detention room in Vichy, France, during the German Occupation. When the curtain opens, the stage reveals a grim setting with little furniture except for a long bench upon which sit six men and a young boy. In the playwright’s words, these characters are “frozen there like members of a small orchestra at the moment before they begin to play.” In the course of the drama, each man anticipates and experiences a dreaded event: his being called into the office of the Nazi captain who is conducting an...
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