Set designer Jolene Petrowski has created a paneled rectangled screen at the back of the stage. The fine ensemble also includes Randino Del Rosario, Lizzy Dalton Negron, Patrick Martin and Kenny Fischer. Solid performances are also turned in by Charles Hoffman as Nixon supporter Jack Brennan Anthony SanFilippo as Bob Zelnick, Jim Broyles as John Birt and Ollie, Ashley James as Caroline Cushing and Leigh Jacobs as Swifty Lazar.

Thomas-Robert Irvin as Jim Reston, who passionately wants to see Nixon confess his crime, turns in a strong performance and nicely serves as narrator for many of the 22 short scenes. Eric Jarrell as David Frost also turns in a terrific performance, capturing Frost’s charm and likability, yet revealing the character’s inner craving for power, fame and prominence. Nixon was aware that he was not personable, and Ragan captures this, yet still manages to make Nixon sympathetic. Ragan has captured Nixon’s mannerisms and brings to life Nixon’s many layers. Jeff Ragan plays Nixon without a hint of caricature he brings to life this complicated, ambitious and driven man who had a long career as a powerful and cagey politician. Under Bridget Dougherty’s fine direction, and thanks to the cast she has chosen, the production is absolutely riveting. The Players Club of Swarthmore is staging Peter Mogan’s Tony-nominated drama “Frost/Nixon,” now through Feb.

The interviews ultimately resulted in Nixon’s first public admission of misconduct. In 1977, British talk show host David Frost gambled that he could revive his fading career with a television scoop: by interviewing former President Nixon, who had resigned from office following the Watergate scandal.

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