Événement

Frost/Nixon

"Frost/Nixon" by Peter Morgan
Sept. 8 - 23
Fri. & Sat. at 8PM on Sept. 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23
and Sun., Sept. 17 at 2PM
directed by Dana O'Neal
produced by Jean Massey Jackson & Becky Venable
set design by Kevin Pelkey
costume design by Helen Adams
lighting design by Jonathan Curns

Free preview for seniors on Thurs., Sept. 7 at 8PM

British talk-show host David Frost has become a lowbrow laughing-stock. Richard M. Nixon has just resigned the United States presidency in total disgrace over Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. Determined to resurrect his career, Frost risks everything on a series of in-depth interviews in order to extract an apology from Nixon. The cagey Nixon, however, is equally bent on redeeming himself in his nation's eyes. In the television age, image is king, and both men are desperate to outtalk and upstage each other as the cameras roll. The result is the interview that sealed a president's legacy.

"Structured as a prize fight between two starkly ambitious men in professional crisis, FROST/NIXON makes it clear that the competitor who controls the camera reaps the spoils." NY Times. "a thoroughly modern Shakespearean tragedyPeter Morgan has given us a behind the scenes look at a well-publicized event, and used his imagination to create a riveting entertainmentmost notably, the midnight phone call from an inebriated Nixon to Frost that, like a show stopping song in a musical or an outstanding opera aria, has the audience bursting into applause." CurtainUp. "ripe entertainmentThe cheerily oblivious limey lightweight and the brooding, mortally wounded political animal: Austin Powers vs. Macbeth." Washington Post. "nails the political, media and cultural fever of that era" AisleSay.com

S T A R R I N G:
Kevin Sosbe as David Frost
Will Jeffries as Richard Nixon
Nick Kaye as John Birt
Al Bhatt as Bob Zelnick
Rick Haylon as James Reston Jr
Ron Malyszka as Irving "Swifty" Lazar
Fred Rueck as James Brennan
Leigh Carusone Katz as Caroline Cushing
Roberto Perez as Manolo Sanchez
Michelle Leigh as Evonne Goolagong
with Amy Soderquist, Jose Roman, Rachel Ames, Paul Landman, and Ian Arbués

"Frost/Nixon is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.