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Incident at Vichy

By: Arthur Miller
Narrated by: Raphael Sbarge, Lawrence Pressman, Gregory Itzin, full cast
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In Vichy, France, in 1942, nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned—are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers "inferior?"

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2002.

Directed by Richard Masur

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Ben Diskin as A Boy

Arye Gross as Bayard, An Electrician

Jamie Hanes as Rom/Police Captain

Andrew Hawkes as A Major

Gregory Itzin as Monceau, An Actor

Robert Lesser as Police Guard/Marchand, A Businessman/Ferrand, A Café Proprietor

Jon Matthews as Lebeau, A Painter

Lawrence Pressman as Von Berg, A Prince

Raphael Sbarge as Leduc, A Doctor

Armin Shimerman as First Detective/Professor Hoffman

Shahar Sorek as A Waiter/Second Detective

Recording, Editing and Mixing Engineer: David Kelly

Stage Manager and Live Sound Effects: Jode Ryskiewicz

(P)2002 L.A. Theatre Works
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In this dark character study, the first sounds the listener hears are faint music, then sirens, then the echoing frightened voices of detainees in a damp Nazi holding cell in Paris, 1942. They're the voices of men in trouble who are wondering how they'll survive and who is to blame. The despairing tones of an electrician (Arye Gross), a painter (Jon Matthews), a doctor (Raphael Sbarge), and six others who are arguing about who deserves to be sent to a concentration camp aren't pretty to hear, but they're mesmerizing. L.A. Theatre Works perfectly captures the black-and-white Cold War ambiance of this 1964 one-act classic.

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As is so often in case with Miller’s best plays, the story, the content, and themes are timeless and have important, even urgent warnings for today’s audiences. And while this play is set in Nazi Germany, it is ultimately about the changeless and terrifying contours of fascism and the scars they leave on us as individuals, as a society, and as a race. To me, this belongs in the cannon of Miller’s greatest stage works.

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Arthur Miller is my new obsession

Written in the 60’s, inspired by the 30’s still so relevant to the 2020’s.
If you don’t know the history, you’ll end up repeating it

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