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Nixon's Nixon
By Russell Lees
Directed by Jerry Whiddon
Held over through June 29, 2008
Round House Theatre Bethesda
4545 East West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814
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He's back - and he's funny!
It's August 7, 1974. Secluded in the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House on the eve of his resignation, President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, come to terms with the consequences of their actions as they act out comic and provocative conversations with various world leaders.
First produced by Round House in 1999, Nixon's Nixon was a huge hit, with rave reviews, sold-out performances, and multiple Helen Hayes Award nominations. Edward Gero (as Nixon) and Conrad Feininger (as Kissinger) reprise their roles for this new production. Producing Artistic Director Emeritus Jerry Whiddon directs a playful satire that's just perfect for this election year.
"Round House triumphs...an energetic, live-action political cartoon with surprising undertones of sympathy and sadness...[Edward] Gero has often been excellent onstage, but he's never been this sheerly delicious. The performance is so audacious, and so much fun, that it's almost giddying: You gape as much as you laugh. Gero is partnered brilliantly with [Conrad] Feininger who, with his rigid back and cool, bespectacled gaze, makes Kissinger a menacing cartoon of ambition...If the play were just another dump-on-Nixon exercise it would go sour quickly. Instead, it turns into a meditation on loss and blasted dreams, a little lesson on the mortality of hope." - Lloyd Rose, The Washington Post (1999)
Please note: Nixon's Nixon will be performed without an intermission.
President Richard Milhous Nixon: Edward Gero
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger: Conrad Feininger
Set Designer: James Kronzer
Costume Designer: Rosemary Pardee
Lighting Designer: Martha Mountain
Sound & Video Designer: Matthew M. Nielson
Stage Manager: Jennifer Schwartz
For a timeline of the Watergate scandal (and links to archived Washington Post stories covering the crisis), click here
To learn more about President Richard Nixon on Wikipedia, click here
To visit the web site of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation, click here
For information about the life and career of Henry Kissinger on Wikipedia, click here
Photos of Edward Gero and Conrad Feininger from Round House Theatre's 1999 production of Nixon's Nixon. Photos by Stan Barouh.
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