SECRET HONOR: THE LAST TESTAMENT OF RICHARD M. NIXON Comes to United Solo Theater Festival

Donald Freed's 1983 classic comes home to New York* in the presence of the writer's wife and guests in this United Solo performance from the UK's Bootcamp Productions. Steve Scott reprises his Gold, 5 and 4 star award winning role which has already captivated audiences and critics alike in Edinburgh, Brighton, Washington DC and Los Angeles, gaining the accolade 'Best of the Fringe' from DC Metro Arts.

We meet Nixon, the Quixotic character who was never a quitter but never a star, attempting to record a memoir, weaving the fantasy of the rationale of why he had to resign. He drinks to mediate the psychological pain. He is plagued by ghosts and paranoia, he is Nixon, the self-identified scapegoat.

We witness the Nixon who threw it all away, one of those wrecked by success, that same Nixon who, with every step up the ladder, betrayed his mother's value system.

As the writer Donald Freed has said "This is a play of 'Fact' and of 'Cruelty.' The biographical and political material is well known to historians; the legal case is abstracted from documents prepared for the House Judiciary Committee as it confronted the impeachment process in 1973 and '74. The rest is our burden - authors and audience: We made the man and we broke him. He is of us, simply, and we must come to terms with him, at last."

*Producer Robert Altman brought the director Robert Harders' original Los Angeles Actors' Theater fifth annual festival of premieres production of Secret Honor to New York City where it opened at the Provincetown Playhouse on November 8 1983. The film version starring Philip Baker Hall who also starred in the original production appeared in 1984. The festival of premieres was co-produced by Diane White and Adam Leipzig.

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