Frost/Nixon Donmar Warhouse

FROST/NIXON Directed by Michael Grandage After an elegant 'That was the week that was special' on the demise of JFK in 1963 endeared him to US audiences, David Frost was immediately offered his own vehicle 'Frost in America'. The format was unlike the biting satire of TWx3 and was light hearted and genial. In 1977 Richard Nixon perhaps in search of public redemption and attracted by the idea of being interviewed by an intelligent but sycophantic host agreed to appear. The pairing became nothing short of an unofficial inquisition with Frost candidly prising a confession out of the former president on live television over the Watergate Hotel misdeeds.

The Donmar warehouse present Peter Morgans play FROST/NIXON. Directed by Micheal Grandage it concentrates on the vulnerability of the former president at this time not upon the million plus deaths his odious South East Asian policy induced. You soon realise however this is a portrait not of individuals but of politics and its loyal satellite, television news media and the symbiosis they share. Richard Nixon, played with majestic calm by Frank Langella and David Frost recreated convincingly by jobbing chameleon Michael Sheen, go toe to toe like old prizefighters with reputations to not restore but resurrect.Shane Deegan