Frost / Nixon

A brilliant live-stage production.

The year was 1977. Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon had yet to answer accusations which brought about his resignation from office August 1974. A Presidential pardon [extended by President Gerald Ford] and three years of "exile" did little to soothe the agony of a people in need of answers, people demanding justice.

Enter David Frost. A television host whose program ran in the U.S. from 1969 to 1972. He was a diminutive celebrity, if a celebrity at all, in the United States. But, in England and Australia he was a prominent interviewer known to move from conversation to confrontation quickly without clemency.

With a series of interviews the American public would finally have a small measure of justice... and a former President would be convicted.

This is a well written play, brilliantly performed [especially by Keith Jochim, Jim Wisniewski; and, Jeff Talbott] and set. Sparse decoration and few props combined with short scenes and brief narrations keep the audience hungry, salivating for the interviews... waiting to devour the legacy of a President of The United States.

B / PG2

Starring: Keith Jochim; Jim Wisniewski; Jeff Talbott; and, Jeremy Holm.
Featuring: David Anzuelo; Celeste Ciulla; and, Keith Merrill.

Writer: Peter Morgan
Director: Steven Woolf

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By Frank Jaymes