2006-2007 Season: Nixon's Nixon
By Russell Lees
Directed by Michael Butler
San Jose Rep is thrilled to reprise Russell Lees’ hilarious and intelligent play with the award-winning original cast and production team from the 1997 production.
On the night before President Nixon’s 1974 resignation, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrives at the White House prepared to find Nixon ready to resign. What follows is a riotous romp as Nixon and Kissinger obsess about their places in history. In a wickedly funny sparring match, Nixon and Kissinger relive historical events as they superbly role-play Brezhnev, Chairman Mao and JFK. Fantasy, reality and the absurd are rolled up in one irreverent comedy, as the two world leaders get down and dirty concocting a series of harebrained crises to keep them both in office.
“This 85-minute tour de force, stunningly realized by David Pichette as Nixon and Peter Van Norden as Henry Kissinger, digs it out (Nixon’s long run) and puts it on glittering comic display.” San Francisco Chronicle
Contains Adult Language