Nixon's Nixon, The Night Before Nixon Resigned, at San Jose Rep
San Jose Repertory Theatre, Across from the San Antonio light rail station (101 Paseo de San Antonio San Jose, CA 95113)
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The last date listed for Nixon's Nixon was Sunday April 22, 2007 / 7:00pm.
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- “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
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San Jose Rep is pleased 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.
By Russell Lees
Directed by Michael Butler
NOTE: This play contains adult language.
Russell Lees (playwright) studied playwriting under Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. His play, Nixon’s Nixon, was transferred Off-Broadway after its initial run at the MCC Theatre in NYC. Mr. Lees has had several plays produced in his native Salt Lake City as well as in Los Angeles and Boston. These include The Cast of the Blue Narcissus, The Shepards Play, The Foggiest Notion, Monday Night Football, and Lost Scene from Cyrano.
Michael Butler (director) is delighted to return to San Jose Rep where he directed The Haunting of Winchester, Mary’s Wedding, Side Man, Desire Under the Elms, Twelfth Night, and the original production of Nixon’s Nixon. His directing work has also been seen at Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Seattle Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, and The Juilliard School, of which he is a graduate. Michael is currently in his first season as Artistic Director of Center REP in Walnut Creek, where he directed Around the World in 80 Days, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Marriage of Figaro.
David Pichette (Richard Nixon) is delighted to be returning to the Rep to recreate one of his favorite roles. He has appeared at the Rep as the unflappable Mr. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, Ivan in Art, Felix in The Odd Couple and Nicola in Arms and the Man. Although he has appeared frequently in regional theatres across the country, David has spent the bulk of his career in the Seattle area, performing at ACT Theatre, Intiman, Empty Space (R.I.P.), and the Fifth Avenue Theatre, among others. In the last year, he has been Mr. Apopolous in Wonderful Town, Gribble in Room Service, Mazzini in Heartbreak House, and, for the eighth time, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Later this spring, David will be in David Hare’s Stuff Happens, a play about yet another reprehensible president.
Peter Van Norden (Henry Kissinger) is happy to make this ninth appearance with San Jose Rep, where audiences might remember him in Moonlight and Magnolias as Ben Hecht, and in Major Barbara as Andrew Undershaft, for which he was recognized with a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Male Performance. Peter most recently played the title role in the world premiere of The Flying Karamazov Brothers’ adaptation of Don Quixote at San Diego Rep. He was also seen in the role of The Judge in David Mamet’s courtroom farce, Romance, also at San Diego Rep. In Los Angeles, he appeared in The Wasps' inaugural production at the Getty Villa and The Wild Party at Blank Theatre Co. He has appeared at most regional theatres across the country, including The Guthrie, Berkeley Rep, The Globe Theatre in San Diego, Intiman Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and Laguna Playhouse. Mr. Van Norden was nominated for an Ovation Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Dinah Was at International City Theatre, Long Beach, and won the very first Backstage West Garland Award for best performance in Joe Orton’s Loot. In his native New York, he has appeared in Hamlet with Kevin Kline, Jungle of Cities with Al Pacino, and on Broadway in Saint Joan with Lynn Redgrave and Little Johnny Jones with Donny Osmond.