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| |  | | Nixon's Nixon | | About The Playwright |
| Written By: Russell Lees | |
Russell Lees was born into a theatrical family in Salt Lake City where two theaters are named after close relatives. He set aside a career as an engineer to study playwriting under the tutelage of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. He considers himself very fortunate to have subsequently interested MCC Theater in Nixon's Nixon, which has gone on to play across America as well as in London's West End and internationally. His most recent play, Monticel', explores the complicated relationships of Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings family. |
| Directed By:
Janet Powell |
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| Performance Dates: |
| Thursday, March 15th at 7:30pm |
| Friday, March 16th at 8:00pm |
| Saturday, March 17th at 8:00pm |
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| Ticket Price: |
| All Tickets $13.00 |
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| About the Show: | | |
| It is the night before President Nixon is to announce his resignation, and he has summoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the Lincoln Sitting Room. Kissinger arrives, expecting to find his President preparing to resign but Nixon leads his Secretary of State on a journey through the high moments of his administration and Nixon’s past. The journey borders on the surreal as Nixon pressures Kissinger into reenacting crucial scenes. Meanwhile, Kissinger is subtly working to convince Nixon to step down so that he can pursue his geopolitical goals—and his own quest for historical glory—unencumbered by a weakened President. | | "…Mr. Lees' blissfully funny and sometimes cruel fiction…both a serious work of the imagination and a fully realized political satire of the sort that the American theater seldom sees." — NY Times. |
| "Let us make it perfectly clear- Nixon is a comedic triumph - A Surreal Take on Nixon's Crisis" - Contra Costa Times |
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| The Cast: | | |
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Les Landen as Henry Kissinger | | |
| Michael Schlotterbeck
as Richard Nixon | | |
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| Contains Nixon’s “Authentic” Adult Language | | |
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| Produced by Special Arrangements with | | |
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