Incident at Vichy

A London staging of Arthur Miller's play Incident at Vichy, directed by Melly Still at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston. It is a drama about detention, complicity and moral responsibility.

Incident at Vichy is an Arthur Miller play, presented in this production directed by Melly Still. It is set in France in 1942, where a group of people are seized from the street and held without any explanation. At first they hope the detention is only a routine identity check.

The tension builds as the detainees are taken away one at a time for questioning, and it becomes clear that they were not chosen at random but because of who they are. The drama examines complicity, personal responsibility and the choices people make when they face injustice, so the questions it raises remain with the audience after the lights go down.

The Arcola Theatre, in Dalston, hosts the staging. The production suits those interested in serious post-war drama and in Miller's exploration of moral responsibility, presented as a dramatic work with a focused, unflinching examination of how ordinary people respond when they are targeted.