Dirty Tricks
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 20, 2004
Closed Nov 7, 2004

Playing at
The Public Theater

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The outrageous "Mouth of the South," Martha Mitchell, relives how she brought down the Nixon administration in a fascinating one-woman show. Dirty Tricks, by John Jeter, is directed by Margaret Whitton and features two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey.

Set on the eve of Nixon's resignation -- thirty years ago this August -- this solo play in one act vividly relives the story of Martha Mitchell, the larger-than-life estranged wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, who took on President Nixon and helped to bring down the administration that tried to silence her.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

The Public Theater
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Marthas and dirty tricks are in the news and in the ether these days. No need to explain the prevalence of dirty tricks during a major election campaign. Right now, Martha references track to the recently imprisoned Martha Stewart; but there was a time a few decades ago when the name summoned the image of motormouth Martha Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's attorney general and chairman of the Committee for the Re-election of the President.

It must be the force of the dirty-tricks-and-Martha zeitgeist that's caused the appearance in Manhattan within two months of not one but a pair of plays about the famous '70s Martha. First there was the Women Center Stage presentation of [...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Oct 21, 2004