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Frost/Nixon Comes to Caldwell Theatre Company
January 4 - February 8, 2009
Special New Year’s Eve Performance at 9 p.m.
Buckle your seatbelts and get ready for Caldwell’s no holds barred Frost/Nixon, which explores British talk show host David Frost’s televised interviews with Richard Nixon three years after the former president left office. The New York Times said that Frost/Nixon has “the momentum of a ticking-bomb thriller and the zing of a boulevard comedy,” and Variety called Frost/Nixon “suspense-filled theater.” Don’t miss the explosive and first-rate Frost/Nixon that is both “Riveting” (Washington Post) and “Extraordinary” (Evening Standard).
"FROST/NIXON HAS “THE MOMENTUM OF A TICKING-BOMB THRILLER AND THE ZING OF A BOULEVARD COMEDY."
The New York Times |
In a November 17, 2008 appearance on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” David Frost reminisced about his insightful interviews with former president Richard Nixon that unfolded as a television event watched by millions, ultimately unmasking the man at the center of Watergate. The four 90-minute taped segments (that David Frost largely financed himself) were aired on Frost’s program, “Frost On America,” whose previous guests included Tennessee Williams and Jack Benny. The interviews took place over a 12-day period in 1977 and totaled 28 ¾ hours, two days of which were devoted exclusively to the Watergate scandal.
These very powerful and intimate tête-à-têtes are the basis of Peter Morgan’s play, Frost/Nixon, an in-depth examination of Nixon and Frost’s conversations that evolved into a war of wits between two equally pugnacious adversaries. Nixon embodied the systemic abuse of the public trust when he left office and he and his advisers believed that these interviews with Frost would rehabilitate his reputation.
In his chat with Jon Stewart, David Frost said that Nixon wasn’t very good at small talk and was often nervous before taping, while cool as a cucumber on camera (generally the opposite of how most people react when televised). When Nixon signed the contract for the television interviews, Frost – in the hopes of breaking the ice and easing the tension – mentioned to Nixon a newspaper report he had read that day about Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982 and former President. Nixon responded by saying, “I wouldn’t want to be a Russian leader – they never know when they’re being taped.”
Witness two intelligent, complicated, quick-witted transformational historical figures in Caldwell’s Frost/Nixon. America’s collective past was rewritten with Nixon’s evasions, admissions and Frost’s perseverance.
Cast: Ashley Ellenburg, Daniel Gibson, Peter Haig, Wynn Harmon, Robert Herrle, Margery Lowe, Bruce Sabath, Michael St. Pierre and Tom Wahl.
"Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."
– George Santayana, Spanish-born American author
of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
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