A rare revival of one of Arthur Miller’s most unflinching and urgent plays.
France. 1942. A group of people are detained. Picked up off the street without explanation, they cling to the hope that this is nothing more than a routine identity check.
Over the course of an hour, as one by one they are called away for questioning, a terrible truth begins to emerge: they have been selected not at random, but for who they are.
Rarely performed, Incident at Vichy confronts our complicity and responsibility in the face of injustice. Olivier and Tony Award-nominated director Melly Still (Coram Boy, My Brilliant Friend, Morning ’til Midnight, Revenger’s Tragedy: National Theatre) returns to Arcola following her sold-out production of Sputnik Sweetheart.
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Content warnings
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Discounts
Concessions available
Pay What You Can Tuesdays
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Captioned performance
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Relaxed performance
Praise for Melly Still’s previous productions:
"Arresting, sumptuous… one of the most powerful pieces of theatre I've seen in a long time"– The Stage, on Coram Boy
"Deeply satisfying… Still's fluid staging understands the epic sweep of this glorious story"– The Guardian, on Coram Boy
"Staged in style and sharply directed by Melly Still… it is very beautiful to observe"– The Guardian, on Sputnik Sweetheart
The Company
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Natasha Alderslade
Von Berg
Natasha Alderslade
Von Berg
Theatre includes: A Bedroom Farce (Peter Hall, UK Tour); Songs Of Grace And Redemption (Theatre 503); Count Oederland (Arcola); Hippolytus (The White Bear). Recent television and film includes: Wild Things (Apple), The Gentleman S2 (Netflix), The American (Apple), A Kind of Spark (CBBC), Vera (ITV), Silent Witness (BBC1).
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James Anthony-Rose
Waiter
James Anthony-Rose
Waiter
Theatre includes: Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Frantic Assembly’s Othello (Ambassadors); How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (New Wolsey Studio). Television includes: All Creatures Great & Small, Masters of the Air, Slow Horses, Angela Black, Pennyworth and Belgravia. James has also performed in productions for BBC Radio 3 and 4, including a solo show, James Blades – Pandemonium of the One-Man Band, which he co-wrote.
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Daniel Ben Zenou
Leduc
Daniel Ben Zenou
Leduc
Film includes: Golda (Bleeker Street), The Offering (Netflix), Entebbe (Focus Features). Television includes: Marlow Murder Club (U&Drama & PBS), The Promised Land (Lionsgate), FBI: International (Universal/CBS), War of the Worlds Season 3 (Disney+), Strike Back (HBO), Call the Midwife (BBC), Jesus: His Life (History Channel), No Offence (Acorn TV), Babs (BBC), Guilt (Freeform), Edge of Heaven (ITV), Strike Back (Cinemax), Skins (Channel 4), Scott & Bailey (ITV), Law & Order: UK (ITV).
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Clare Fraenkel
Marchand / Ferrand
Clare Fraenkel
Marchand / Ferrand
Clare studied English at Bristol University, then trained at Drama Studio London. Her award-winning solo show I Was A German (★★★★ The Times) debuted at Edinburgh Fringe in 2025.
Theatre includes: Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III (NYC Off-Broadway/London/Edinburgh); Against Democracy (Arcola); Girl with The Iron Claws (Edinburgh/Soho Theatre/Tour); Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Tour); Rough Music (Kings Head); The Borrowers (Haymarket Basingstoke); The Rivals (Theatre Royal Bath); multiple productions for Polka Theatre and Oxford Shakespeare Company. Screen includes: This Is Going to Hurt (BBC); Magic Mike’s Last Dance (dir. Steven Soderbergh). Video game: Squadron 42/Star Citizen.
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Alex Mugnaioni
Major
Alex Mugnaioni
Major
Alex trained at Rose Bruford. He is a regular in the BBC’s hit YA series Crookhaven and is currently filming the second series. He has appeared in The Night Manager, Mr Sloane, The Borgias and Romeo & Juliet for the National Theatre/SkyTV/PBS, and in the feature film The Son with Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern.
He has worked with the Globe Theatre five times to date, in productions of The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, and a six-month tour of Much Ado About Nothing around South America and the US. He led in Straight White Men at the Southwark Playhouse to great acclaim.
Alex’s other theatre credits include The Visit with Lesley Manville, directed by Jeremy Herrin at the National Theatre, Robin Hood at Regent’s Park, Jules and Jim at Jermyn Street, Dear Martin at the Arcola and The Constant Wife for the RSC.
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Emily Mytton
Professor
Emily Mytton
Professor
Emily trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She is an actor, director and writer.
As an actor theatre includes My Brilliant Friend, From Morning to Midnight, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, WarHorse, His Dark Materials (National Theatre); Rock ’n’ Roll, Beasts and Beauties (Hampstead Theatre); Agatha (Theatre503);The Burnt City, The Drowned Man, Tunnel 228 (Punchdrunk); Wings (Young Vic); My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Magic Flute (Complicité/ENO); Medea (Almeida); The Empress, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (RSC);
Red Ladies (The Clod Ensemble); World Cup Final 1966, The Lesson (Battersea Arts Centre); The Chimp That Spoke, Off the Wall (The David Glass Ensemble); The Donkey Show (Hanover Grand) Crime and Punishment, Square, The Turnout, Floating Babel (Shibboleth)
Recent TV and film includes Pour Me and Sisters in Arms.
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Nye Occomore
Lebeau
Nye Occomore
Lebeau
Nye trained at the Oxford School of Drama.
Theatre includes: Death on the Nile (UK Tour). Television includes: Industry (HBO), The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky), Grantchester (ITV). Film includes: Truth & Treason (Angel Studios). Radio includes: Planet Krynoid: Survivors, Planet Krynoid: Nightfall (Big Finish Productions); Emperor and Galilean (BBC Radio 3).
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Jonah Rzeskiewicz
Bayard
Jonah Rzeskiewicz
Bayard
Jonah Rzeskiewicz’s screen credits include the role of Jason in BBC Three’s supernatural drama Domino Day and Jimmy Park in Apple TV+’s acclaimed series Masters of the Air, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. He made his screen acting debut in Kenneth Branagh’s feature film Death on the Nile.
His theatre credits include Tom Fool at the Orange Tree Theatre, directed by Diyan Zora, and Coming Clean at Trafalgar Studios. Jonah trained at RADA and graduated in 2019.
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Sam Thorpe-Spinks
Monceau
Sam Thorpe-Spinks
Monceau
Sam Thorpe-Spinks’ screen credits include, BBC’s acclaimed thriller The Capture, Paramount+’s Sexy Beast and ITVX’s A Spy Among Friends. His other television credits include Doctors and the BBC drama Is This Sexual Harassment? He has just finished filming a role in an upcoming Amazon Prime Video series.
His theatre credits include The Arc: A Trilogy of New Jewish Plays at Soho Theatre, Something in the Air at Jermyn Street Theatre and Sovereign at York Theatre Royal. Sam trained at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating in 2021.
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Arthur Miller
Playwright
Arthur Miller
Playwright
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop’s Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) and Playing for Time (1980). Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’ Connections (1998) and Resurrection Blues (2002). Among his other works are Situation Normal (1944), the novel Focus (1945), screenplay The Misfits (1960), and texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include ‘Salesman’ in Beijing (1984), and Timebends, an autobiography (1987). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Any More (1967), the novella Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). Essay collections published in his lifetime include The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1978) and Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944–2000, as well as individually published volumes ‘The Crucible’ in History (2000) and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. Among other honors, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Melly Still
Director
Melly Still
Director
Melly Still is currently working on Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy for the Arcola Theatre, Jago a musical with Gary Beestone Associates, Don’t Forget a musical with George Fenton composing, and for the Marianne Faithful estate a new piece of musical theatre drawn from her songs. For opera Melly is working on The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth for Malmö Opera, Bluebeard and Songs for My Dead Sister for Opera North and Macbeth (Bloch) for Birmingham Opera. She recently directed Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes (winner of UK Theatre awards and nominated for a Sky Arts Award 2026) for Welsh National Opera and Wagner’s Die Walküre for Santa Fe Opera.
She has worked as a director, choreographer, designer and writer/adaptor on many theatre and opera productions. As director these include: Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang) Beijing and China tour; Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami/Bryony Lavery) at Arcola Theatre, The Creation (Haydn) at Cologne Opera, Peter Grimes (Britten) at Welsh National Opera, Die Walküre (Wagner) at the Santa Fe Opera, Magic Flute for Nevill Holt Opera; My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante/April de Angelis), Revengers’ Tragedy (Middleton), Coram Boy (Jamila Gavin/Helen Edmundson) all for the National Theatre; Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold/Bryony Lavery) UK Tour.
She has been nominated for Olivier and Tony awards (best director and best design), International Opera awards, UK Theatre Awards and Sky Arts Awards (Best Opera Production). Her work has travelled throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, India, China, Australia, US and Broadway.
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Liv Walters
Co-Designer
Liv Walters
Co-Designer
Liv is a set and costume designer for theatre, ballet, and opera. Their passion lies in the extension and curation of queer stories and this has driven a lot of their personal practice over the last year. They are currently working on Womb of One’s Own (Shoreditch Town Hall). Recent credits include (Bad Lesbians (CPT, Edinburgh Fringe and Friction Arts in Birmingham), THREAD (The Royal Exchange in Manchester), The World Class Wrecking Crew (Peckham Fringe), Hansel and Grettle (Derngate Theatre), Blue Balls (Hen and Chickens Theatre). Credits as an Associate include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (UK tour), Cyrano de Bergerac (CAA Theatre Toronto), Wolf Alice The Clearing (UK and European Tour), Dancing at Lughnasa (Olympia Theatre Dublin), A Single Man (Royal Opera House and Factory International), A Dolls House (The Crucible Sheffield), The Magic Flute (Nevil Holt Opera House), Robin Hood and The Tempest (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
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Doug Cairns
Lighting Designer
Doug Cairns
Lighting Designer
Doug is a set and lighting designer working across a range of theatre, music, and live events. Alongside a degree in Theatre and Performance from Warwick University, he has extensive experience in touring and production roles. He enjoys a multidisciplinary approach that brings a unique style to each creative challenge. Doug believes a strong technical foundation helps make him a supportive collaborator, and that a varied portfolio leads to bold concepts efficiently executed on stage.
Recent lighting credits include Holly Johnson: Pleasuredome 40th anniversary tours; Dionne Warwick: Don’t make Me over; Janette and Aljaz: A Night to Remember; Legends of the Dance Floor; and House of Flamenka.
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Julian Starr
Sound Designer & Composer
Julian Starr
Sound Designer & Composer
Julian is an award‑winning Sound Designer and Composer for stage and screen, whose work has been seen throughout the UK, Australia, and Europe. He has received seven Off West End Award nominations and a Sydney Theatre Award nomination. He studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) and was featured in Australia’s Stage Whispers as one of the “Top 4 Sound Designers and Composers”.
Recent work includes: Holy Fool (Park); Do Not Go Gentle (Queensland Theatre); The Hidden Dangers of Camping (Theatre Royal Windsor); Prima Facie (NORPA); Yentl, The Wanderers, The White Factory (Marylebone); This Bitter Earth (Soho); Dear Martin (Arcola); The End (Bush); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Associate Sound Designer – Theatre Royal Haymarket); Sharon Osbourne – Cut The Crap! (Fortune); Miss Peony (Australian Tour); The Third (V&A Museum); Song From Far Away (HOME Manchester); Zog (West End); Rose (West End); Sleepwalking (Hampstead).
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Iris Supple-Still
Assistant Director
Iris Supple-Still
Assistant Director
Iris Supple-Still is an emerging director, writer and performer from Southeast London, committed to conveying the human experience with a thrilling and unflinching eye. She trained in contemporary dance before studying Classics at Edinburgh University, where she began writing and performing improvised comedy with the renowned Improverts (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2023-24). Before graduating she wrote a libretto for opera (Royal Academy of Music, Tête à Tête Festival), and for her dissertation wrote and imagined a tragedy (Ovid’s lost Medea). She has written, directed and performed her own work Blueballs (Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Hen and Chickens 2025) and is currently writing a political/family tragicomedy set in Ancient Rome. Her most recent credit is The World Class Wrecking Crew (The Carlton Club, Theatre Peckham), a play about graffiti artists which she directed and choreographed. She continually develops her dance practice, collaborating and performing with live musicians in grassroots music venues (A Curious Juncture, Deptford Junction). Iris draws from her roots as a Southeast Londoner, training in comedy and dance, work as a carer, support worker and tutor, a degree in Classics, passion for poetry and love of electronic music to create theatre that is as unsettling as it is inviting. At its core, her work strives to tell stories through inclusive collaboration, joining text, movement and music into a form that is brave and accessible, that enthrals, stirs conversation and incites change.
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Iben Bering Sørensen
Stage Manager on Book
Iben Bering Sørensen
Stage Manager on Book
Iben Bering Sørensen is a Danish-born stage manager based in London. She is passionate about creating new theatre that pushes boundaries and leaves audiences with food for thought. As part of a theatre production, she works creatively and collaboratively, always striving to create a safe, inclusive and warm working environment throughout the production process. Her credits include Some Woman and Inter Alia (National Theatre), Oh, Mary! (West End) and The Red Shoes (RSC).
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Mik Mondlane
Assistant Stage Manager
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Joe Prentice
Production Manager
Joe Prentice
Production Manager
Joe is a Production Manager whose credits include: Posh (Criterion Theatre & UK tour), Radiant Boy, Who is Claude Cahun?, Brixton Calling, The Chaos That Has And Will No Doubt Return, The Soon Life, Drifting, Little Miss Christmas, Firebird and Mona Loser (Southwark Playhouse), The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, 54.60 Africa, Crocodile Fever, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, Ukraine Unbroken and The Turn of the Screw (Arcola), Mother Russia (Hampstead Theatre) and Masterpieces and Just to Get Married (Finborough Theatre). He was previously Head of Stage in the West End, overseeing the stagecraft of various plays and musicals.
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Bea Viña
Costume Supervisor
Bea Viña
Costume Supervisor
Bea Viña is a London-based costume supervisor and set and costume designer. She graduated in Design for Performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2021. Her Arcola credits include costume supervision for Quartet in Autumn (2026) and Jane Eyre (2025). Recent work includes the Blue Mist 2026 tour with Boundless Theatre and Tamasha, and youth productions with Welsh National Opera and Daniel Kaluuya’s Centre 59. Design credits include Bitter Visions: By Order of Hildegard for the Arcola’s Grimeborn Festival (2026) and Hansel and Gretel with Merry Opera (2025).
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Fri 15 Jan 2027
7pm
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7pm
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Artwork by Steph Pyne.