Frost/Nixon A Play

By 1972 Richard Nixon had ended the Vietnam war, achieved diplomatic breakthroughs with Russia and China, presided over a period of economic stability at home, and was on the verge of a landslide re-election . . . until he decided to cover up a third-rate burglary. Watergate was one of the largest scandals in American history and two years later Nixon would resign the presidencybut with neither an admission of guilt nor any sign of remorse. In a drama "as thought-provoking as it is gripping and entertaining" (Charles Spencer,TheDaily Telegraph), acclaimed screenwriterPeter Morgan examines how a British playboy, talk-show host managed what no other journalist or prosecutor could: to extract a confession from our most notorious statesman. Peter Morganhas collaborated with Stephen Frears onThe DealandThe Queen. He has written for numerous other screenplays including, for television,Mickey Love,The JuryandLongford; and, for film, MarthaMeet Frank, Daniel and Laurence,The Last King of ScotlandandThe Other Boleyn Girl. He lives between London and Vienna with his wife and four children.Frost/Nixonis his first stage play. By 1972, Richard Nixon had ended the Vietnam war, achieved diplomatic breakthroughs with Russia and China, presided over a period of economic stability at home, and was on the verge of a landslide re-election . . . until he decided to cover up a third-rate burglary. Watergate was one of the largest scandals in American history and two years later Nixon would resign the presidencybut with neither an admission of guilt nor any sign of remorse. In a drama "as thought-provoking as it is gripping and entertaining" (Charles Spencer,TheDaily Telegraph), acclaimed screenwriterPeter Morgan examines how a British playboy, talk-show host managed what no other journalist or prosecutor could: to extract a confession from our most notorious statesman. "A smash London and Broadway play about [Nixon's] famous post-presidential interviews with the British television-talk-show impresario David Frost . . . Nixon's odd attractiveness inFrost/Nixonshould come as no surprise. All of Morgan's recent scriptsnotablyThe Queen, about Elizabeth II in the aftermath of Princess Diana's death, in 1997, andThe Last King of Scotland, about the Ugandan dictator Idi Aminhave portrayed their historical protagonists as more complex and substantial than their prevailing public images."Michael Nelson,The Chronicle of Higher Education "Television mows down a titan inFrost/Nixon, the briskly entertaining new play by Peter Morgan about the 1977 face-off between its title characters."Ben Brantley,The New York Times "A smash London and Broadway play about [Nixon's] famous post-presidential interviews with the British television-talk-show impresario David Frost . . . Nixon's odd attractiveness inFrost/Nixonshould come as no surprise. All of Morgan's recent scriptsnotably The Queen, about Elizabeth II in the aftermath of Princess Diana's death, in 1997, and The Last King of Scotland, about the Ugandan dictator Idi Aminhave portrayed their historical protagonists as more complex and substantial than their prevailing public images."Michael Nelson,The Chronicle of Higher Education

Peter Morgan is an acclaimed screenwriter whose work includes The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. Frost/Nixon is his first play.