'Frost/Nixon' Acclaimed Play Scheduled For Caldwell

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Caldwell Theatre Company 

To Stage Peter Morgan's FROST/NIXON January 2009 

Caldwell Theatre Company won the rights to stage the critically-acclaimed and multiple award-winning Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan during its upcoming Mainstage Season, from January 4 – February 8, 2009.  

This drama explores British talk show host David Frost's televised interviews with Richard Nixon three years after the former president left office.  "This is an important coup for us," says Caldwell Theatre Company artistic director Michael Hall.  "We wanted to do Frost/Nixon last year and again this year, but rights were not available to us until last week.  We agreed to do the play immediately, replacing the previously-announced The Circle.  Regardless of the past, Nixon makes a formidable and foxy interview candidate for the aggressive Frost.  This play is a tremendous addition to our winter season." 

The only televised interview given by Nixon after leaving the White House was to Frost for "The Nixon Interviews" in 1977.  Based on four 90-minute taped segments (that David Frost largely financed himself,) their head-to-head evolved into a war of wits between two equally pugnacious adversaries in Peter Morgan's play, Frost/Nixon.

Playwright Peter Morgan (of "The Queen" and "The Last King of Scotland" movie fame) confirms the accuracy of the events in Frost/Nixon yet considers it a work of fiction.  "That he has been unable to resist using his imagination," David Benedict of Variety said of Morgan, "is what turns the work from acted reportage into suspense-filled theater … persuading the audience that history is happening right here, right now."

"Relationships really interest me and in this particular case," said playwright Morgan, "there was a very dramatic context of how these two men were going into a sort of verbal head-to-head.  It felt like a boxing match, but where words were the weapons."

Caldwell Theatre Company

January 4, 2009 – February 8, 2009

Frost/Nixon

TICKETS:                 Previews:  $32 & $36 on January 4, January 6, January 7, January 8. 

Regular Tickets:        $36 & $42, January 10 – February 8. 

Opening Night Gala:   $55 on January 9, 2009.

SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE NOW.  Individual Tickets as of August 18.

Student Rush            $10, available one-half hour prior to curtain with a valid, fulltime student ID and class schedule

Box Office:                877-245-7432 or 561-241-7432. 

Group Sales:              561-995-2333 – Group discounts available.  Call for details.

Web Site:                  www.caldwelltheatre.com.  Tickets and information available 24/7 online.

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