Nixon's Nixon April 8, 2007

Russell Lees' riveting play imagines the conversation that took place when President Richard Nixon summoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the White House on August 7, 1974, the night before he resigned. No one knows the content of their conversation, but Lees presents these larger-than-life characters reliving past glories, fighting for their political future and wrestling with their desire to hold on to power.