ANITA CREED
GENERAL MANAGER & PRODUCER
Incident at Vichy

28th March - 22nd April at the Finborough Theatre, London.
7th June - 25th June at Kings Head Theatre, London.
Arthur Miller’s largely forgotten masterpiece about Jewish registration in Nazi occupied France burns with a terrifying topical intensity.
In the detention room of a Vichy police station in 1942, eight men have been picked up for questioning but none are told why they are held, or when they can leave. At first, their hopeful guess is that only their identity papers will be checked – but as each man is removed for interrogation, some are set free, some are never seen again, and the stakes rise for those who remain…
Directed by Phil Willmott and presented at the Finborough Theatre, both award-winners in their own rights. Subsequent transfer to the King's Head Theatre, London.
The Arthur Miller Society in America describe the show as:
".....as a companion piece to After the Fall, Incident at Vichy illustrates the anti-Semitic ideas which fed the Holocaust. Set in Vichy France during the German occupation in 1942, the action focuses on a group of detainees representing all walks of life–from a beggar to a prince–who wait to be interrogated by the Nazis who are searching for Jews to send to the death camps. As the men anxiously wait, a number of discussions arise among the prisoners concerning their attitudes on the occupation, the resistance, and the anti-Semitic environment rampant in Europe at the time. Despite confrontations with the Nazi captors–the captain of whom is portrayed as being reluctantly forced to behave in this way–and their fear of what awaits them, the prisoners discover the possibility of meaning in their adversity through non-Jewish Prince Von Berg’s gift of his own pass to freedom to the Jewish psychiatrist, Leduc."

Click above to read an article written by Christopher Bigsby, considered the world's leading expert on Miller.
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