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Chapter, Cardiff

2000

Made In Wales

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Donmar Warehouse, London, EUR >>>

2006

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Faber, London, 2006

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Peter Morgan is clearly hypnotised by power. Having explored the Blair-Brown relationship in The Deal, he now turns his attention to David Frost's 1977 TV interviews with Richard Nixon. The result, even if it induces a dubious sympathy for the fallen president, is a gripping study of the politics of the media. In Morgan's hands, the Californian showdown between the protagonists takes on the aura of a boxing bout. On the left, you have the supposedly lightweight English TV talk-show host: on the right, the veteran occupant of the seats of power. Each man also has his seconds: in Frost's case a positive army of them led by liberal academic, Jim Reston, while Nixon is supported by a tough military slugger. And, as in all good fight stories, the challenger loses the opening rounds only to deliver a final knockout punch by getting Nixon to confess to his Watergate sins. But the real fascination of Morgan's play lies in its suggestion that, behind the contest, there was a symbiotic link between Frost and Nixon. Frost, having lost his American and Australian shows, desperately needed the interviews to restore his dwindling fantasy fortunes: Nixon, for his part, craved public redemption. And Morgan pushes the parallels further by having Nixon make a phone call to Frost suggesting they are insecure men seeking vindictive triumph over their enemies. It's a risky device which comes off only because Morgan leaves you in doubt as to whether it's a shared fantasy.
Michael Billington, Guardian

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2000

Made in Wales

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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