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REVIEW
'Frost/Nixon' in Fullerton a tense showdown
Maverick Theater's staging of Peter Morgan's 2006 drama draws energy from its depiction of actual figures and events.
By ERIC MARCHESE
About the best analogies of Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" are those of a heavyweight boxing match and a private poker game in which the stakes are continually raised. And in its new production of the fact-based 2006 drama, Maverick Theater in Fullerton follows through on both metaphors, creating suspense and excitement even when we already know the outcome.
In the process of the intensely paced, intermission-less 95-minute production, we watch as former President Richard M. Nixon (Joe Parrish) and British TV journalist David Frost (David Herbelin) go from complete strangers who inhabit divergent worlds to cautious negotiators of an unprecedented television deal, then to first-time opponents testing each other's potential weaknesses and, finally, to fierce adversaries bent upon nothing short of unequivocal victory...
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