Frost/Nixon

To start off, I'd like to point out that the play itself is better than I thought it would be. I thought there would be certain inside jokes that only people who were there to witness Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal would know about.

I felt like the script flowed well with the acting. Sure at some parts for others seem a bit long, but there was so much information that was said that made the audience feel the emotion, especially the phone call between Frost and Nixon. You felt the emotion of one man trying to take the other down, and you feel the emotion of that broken man who is ashamed for what he has committed. Plus, isn't this play intended to be based on a true story? However, I would like to point out something I didn't particularly liked as much, and that was the second to last interview. I feel that the momentum slowed down a bit. I wondered how they would end the play. But then again, I feel that the amount of emotion and passion acted took it home. Like I had mentioned before, the emotion felt very real for me that it didn't matter if that part of the play was useful or not. I really enjoyed the scenes when the four men were together trying to break Nixon emotionally down.

I thought their body language helped the effect of the text in communicating the main idea. I enjoyed the play very much, simply because I knew about the Watergate scandal already having taking history last term, and I liked seeing it portrayed on stage with acting and script. I was pretty excited about some of the facts that were talked about in the play. In a social context, I think the director wanted the audience to know the “inside” to the Watergate scandal. I also thought that the characters chosen for the play was very well cast, their performance was effective in the script, the way they persuaded the audience was convincing.

Sam