Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan Directed by Steven Woolf CONTENTS 2 the 411 3 A/S/L & RMAI 4 FYI 5 HTH 6 F2F 7 RBTL 8 B4U 10 IRL1 11 IRL2 12 SWDYT?
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2008—2009 SEASON FROST/NIXON by Peter Morgan Directed by Steven Woolf CONTENTS 2 The 411 3 A/S/L & RMAI 4 FYI 5 HTH 6 F2F 7 RBTL 8 B4U 10 IRL1 11 IRL2 12 SWDYT? Major Sponsor: The Mary Ranken Jordan and Ettie A. Jordan Charitable Foundation MISSOURI ARTS COUNCIL At The Rep, we know MIHYAP: Top Ten Ways to that life moves fast— Stay Connected at The Rep okay, really fast. 10. TBA Ushers will seat your school or class as a group, But we also know so even if you are dying to mingle with the group from the that some things all girls school that just walked in the door, stick with your are worth slowing friends until you have been shown your section in the theatre. down for. We believe that live theatre is one of those pit stops worth making and are excited that you are 9. SITD The house lights will dim immediately before the performance begins and then go dark. Fight off that oh-so- going to stop by for a show. To help you get the most bang immature urge to whisper, giggle like a grade schooler or yell for your buck, we have put together WU? @ THE REP—an at this time and during any other blackouts in the show. IM guide that will give you everything you need to know to get at the top of your theatergoing game—fast. You’ll find 8. SED Before the performance begins, turn off all cell character descriptions (A/S/L), a plot summary (FYI), phones, pagers, beepers and watch alarms. If you need to biographical information (F2F), historical context (B4U) text, talk or dial back during intermission, please make sure and other bits and pieces (HTH). Most importantly, we’ll to click off before the show resumes. have some ideas about what this all means IRL, anyway. 7. TMI Not to sound like your mom, but “if you need to go now, you needed to go then.” Leaving the theatre during the performance is disruptive, so take care of any personal needs before the show starts. 6. RTM When you arrive at the theatre, read the production program. It’s like a deluxe version of liner notes and a free souvenir, all in one. 5. P-ZA? NW! Though your ability to eat ten slices at one sitting may impress your friends, no one wants to listen to The Teacher’s you chew, slurp or smack, so please leave all food, drink and Lounge gum outside the theatre. In an effort to make our 4. TLK-2-U-L8R We know that you will be dying to educational materials more discuss what you see onstage with your friends, but please wait until intermission. Any talking—even whispering—is accessible to students and easier for very distracting for both the actors onstage and the audience educators to incorporate into the class- seated around you. room, our study guide is written in a student-oriented format. We hope that you will circulate this guide among 3. LOL Without you, we really wouldn’t have a show. It’s your students in the weeks preceding your visit to The your job to laugh when a scene is funny or maybe even shed Rep, encouraging them to browse it before and after class a tear or two in a tender moment. However, since you are not and as time allows, using it as a launch point for both the audience at The Jerry Springer Show please refrain from inappropriate responses such as talking, whistling, making pre- and post-performance discussions.You may also want catcalls or singing along with the performers. to visit our website, www.repstl.org, for additional information including educational games, activity 2. SOP While it’s great that you want a celeb picture of suggestions and behind-the-scenes information. Any your day at The Rep, the theatre is off-limits to the paparazzi. materials, either from this guide or from our website may Flash photography interrupts the performance and along with be reproduced for use in the classroom. As videorecording is prohibited by Actors Equity rules. You can always, we appreciate your making live sneak a peek at production photos on our website, www.repstl.org. theatre a part of your classroom experience and welcome your 1. LLTA Let the actors know that you respect their work by feedback and questions. remaining for the curtain call at the end of the performance. Show your appreciation through applause. Show Me Standards: CA 2, 3, 5, 6, 7; FA 2, 3, 4, 5; SS 1, 2, 3, 6 and Illinois Learning Standards: 1, 2, 5, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 25, 27. A man not particularly inclined to being Wily and sometimes a little too slick, social, RICHARD NIXON is a former IRVING PAUL LAZAR (also known as president shrouded in secrecy and scandal. SWIFTY LAZAR) is a legendary Hollywood agent currently representing Nixon for his Stuck as something like an Entertainment interview with Frost. Tonight or Access Hollywood reporter, DAVID FROST craves the respect he feels he BOB ZELNICK, a veteran Washington deserves as a real journalist. reporter, brings an added credibility to Frost’s interview. JIM RESTON, a hard-nosed university lecturer, is bent on making Nixon confess to An attractive intellectual, CAROLINE his involvement in the Watergate scandal. CUSHING catches Frost’s eye during a flight to California. Always ready to defend the former president, JACK BRENNAN is one of Nixon’s closest Besides having a cool name, EVONNE advisors and friends. GOOLAGONG is a famous tennis player. Organized and experienced in broadcast MANOLO SANCHEZ serves as Nixon’s television, JOHN BIRT is the first man Frost valet. turns to for help when taking on the Nixon interview. READ MORE ABOUT IT We encourage you to explore the following books, movies and websites for more information. Rosen, James. Nixon, 191 minutes, Walt http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ The Strong Man: Disney Video, 1999. Directed by exhibitions/web/woodstein/ Jon Mitchell and the Oliver Stone and starring Anthony Interested in the behind-the- Secrets of Watergate. Hopkins as Richard Nixon, this scenes stuff that went into Doubleday, 2008. Check film is a biographical journey Woodward and Bernstein’s out one of James Rosen’s through the life of one of our notes? Check out the Watergate many books on the subject of most infamous presidents. papers on this website. Watergate. All the President’s Men, 139 http://www.rockthevote.com/ Peristein, Rick. Nixonland: The minutes, Warner Home Video, home.html Find out just how Rise of a President and the 1997. This Oscar-winning film important your vote is, and check Fracturing of America. Scibner, classic starring Robert Redford out some of the cool events 2008. After you’ve read up on and Dustin Hoffman takes inspiring people to vote. Nixon and Watergate, check out a look at another journalist http://pbskids.org/democracy/ the world in which they came pair investigating the scandal mygovt/index.html What is the to be. This book examines the of Watergate—the famous government and what role does state of the nation and what was Woodward and Bernstein. it play in your life? Take a look happening before and during the http://www.musarium.com/ at this page and you’ll see all the time of Nixon’s fall. watergate.html Want to see ways the government affects us. more on Watergate? Check out this online photo essay. 3 AS FROST/NIXON OPENS, it’s August 8, credible Washington reporter Bob Zelnick 1974, and a series of scandals have rocked and Jim Reston who is bent on getting a full the White House. Though jovial with the confession out of Nixon. Meanwhile, close camera crew, Richard Nixon is all business friend and advisor Jim Brennan assures the once he goes live on national television to former president that the Frost interview resign his post as President of the United will be a chance for Nixon to help bolster his States. image by erasing the shame of Watergate. ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after his AS THE INTERVIEWS fire up, Frost is ready resignation, Nixon falls into a severe illness to have Nixon on his knees. Opening with that prevents him from the hard questions, it standing trial for his role seems he has Nixon on in Watergate. Though he the ropes from the very is fortunate enough to beginning. However, the be granted a full pardon seasoned lawyer and by his replacement as politician doesn’t president (Gerald Ford), respond the Nixon never has a chance way Frost thought. to vindicate himself and Over the course of a tell his side of the story. series of interviews Frost continually MEANWHILE, popular attempts to draw out the culture reporter David scandal while Nixon Frost has a scheme comes away smelling like that might earn him a rose. real credibility as a journalist—give Nixon his chance to speak CLOSING IN on the via an interview. Frost cannot gain such final day, Frost’s team is desperate to credibility, however, simply by giving Nixon make something of the interviews. Though a platform to speak. He’s got to somehow seemingly calm and cool, even Frost himself make Nixon confess to his involvement in is beginning to unravel. Luckily, some the Watergate scandal. research that Reston stumbles upon holds the missing link the team needs. When Frost THOUGH NIXON is reluctant to talk, he enters the final interview, he’s armed and is willing to allow legendary Hollywood ready to take Nixon down.