Incident at Vichy Author:Arthur Miller "One of the most important plays of out time." --Howard Taubman, The New York Times. — "...intense drama...continuously absorbing...a kind of suspense thriller with moral overtones....Mr. Miller appears to be returning to form...he is getting back into his stride as a playwright of ideas." --Richard Watts Jr., The New York Post. — The drama is sha... more »ttering in its suspense and what it has to say. The entire action takes place in a detention room in Vichy, France, in the space of an hour and three-quarters, one morning in September, 1942. Nine men and a boy, suspected as Jews, are waiting to be examined by officials in the inner office. They have been picked up at random from the street for a purpose unknown to them. A few are confident that it is merely a routine check, others hide their fear in optimistic speculation or cover it with silence.« less