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The Sorrow and Pity of Arthur Miller's 'Incident at Vichy'

JL;DR SUMMARY Arthur Miller's play, "Incident at Vichy," performed recently at the Signature Theatre in Manhattan, delves deeply into the themes of collaboration, race, and moral ambiguity during the Holocaust era, resonating with issues of universal human struggle and complicity. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityRacismHolocaust NarrativesArthur MillerRacial ProfilingMoral CourageFrench CollaborationIncident At VichySignature TheatreUniversal Guilt

Places mentioned

Vichy, Allier, France
"The trouble with a play like Arthur Millers An Incident at Vichy is the ubiquitous presence of Holocaust narratives in contemporary films and books."
New York, United States
"the fast-moving production of Millers 1964 play at the Signature Theater in Manhattan"
Austria
"One of the characters, Von Berg, an Austrian nobleman, notes that if I did not know that some of them in there were French, Id have said they laugh like Germans."
Germany
"seemed to appreciate art and culture more than any other European nation could be capable of such barbarism."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Anna Katsnelson teaches world literature at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn."

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