"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.
Author: Arthur Miller
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 04/02/1985
Series: Penguin Plays
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780140481938
Audience: Young Adult
About the AuthorArthur 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.