Frost/Nixon

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 presidency—but 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, The Daily Telegraph), acclaimed screenwriter Peter 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.   

Praise

"Television mows down a titan in Frost/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 in Frost/Nixon should come as no surprise. All of Morgan's recent scripts—notably 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 Amin—have portrayed their historical protagonists as more complex and substantial than their prevailing public images.”—Michael Nelson, The Chronicle of Higher Education

About the Author(s)

Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan has collaborated with Stephen Frears on The Deal and The Queen. He has written for numerous other screenplays including, for television, Mickey Love, The Jury and Longford; and, for film, Martha—Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, The Last King of Scotland and The Other Boleyn Girl. He lives between London and Vienna with his wife and four children. Frost/Nixon is his first stage play.