Incident at Vichy
Incident at Vichy Author: Arthur Miller
First Performance: 1964, New York
Published: 1965
Genre: Drama in 1 act
Setting: Place of detention, Vichy, France, 1942
Cast: 21m
Six men and a boy have been taken off the streets by the police in Vichy, capital of unoccupied France in the Second World War. They are Marchand, a self-important businessman; Lebeau, a painter; Bayard, an electrician; Monceau, an actor; a Gypsy; a Waiter; and a boy of 15. None of them knows why they have been arrested. Three more detainees are brought in by the police: an old Jew, the indignant Doctor Leduc, who insists that he is a captain in the French army, and the Austrian aristocrat Prince von Berg. The men begin to discuss the deportation of the Jews which has begun in Vichy France. As they are interrogated one by one by a Professor of...
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