Incident at Vichy

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It isn't difficult to understand the initial resistance by audiences
and critics to Arthur Miller's 1964 play
Incident at Vichy, now being given an excellent revival by The Actors Company Theatre at Theatre Row. Much of the play registers as didactic as it depicts anxious detainees -- most of them Jewish -- hunkering on a detention-room bench and concerned their papers won't get them dismissed by the presiding authorities. The fevered opus frequently comes across as a moralizing debate as well as a patent use of the Holocaust to hold viewers emotionally hostage.

Nevertheless, this production, directed by Scott Alan Evans with clarity and compassion and acted by a first-rate troupe of comm[...]