Reviews

Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller

boredstudent's review

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

qingyigeshu's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Extremely powerful play. Moving. Asks the big questions, but doesn’t shy away from humanity. Beautiful. 

kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition

5.0

I like the Crucible, but I am not a huge fan of Death of a Salesman. I understand why it’s great, but the play never did it for me. And I am more of a Neil Simon fan.
But this play. This play. This they should use in schools. It would resonate more than the Crucible.
Most powerful play ever.

dtpsweeney's review

5.0

One of the best, most searing plays I have ever read. This cements Arthur Miller in my mind as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century; he has a piercing, unnerving ability to reveal the ways we harm one another through group (in)action, how unconfronted histories destroy us, and how evil nearly always takes banal shapes cloaked in authority.

What Miller has to tell us about America and human behavior is as urgent in our time as it was in his own. I wish it was not so, but I am grateful to be able to read and re-read and reflect on his work.