Camp David at Arena Stage

Camp David

Arena Stage
1101 Sixth Street, SW Washington

Sixty-two miles north of Washington, DC, nestled in Catoctin Mountain Park, lies the clandestine retreat known as Camp David. For thirteen tumultuous days, President Jimmy Carter (Emmy winner Richard Thomas) and his wife Rosalynn (Tony nominee Hallie Foote) host Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Tony winner Ron Rifkin) and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (Khaled Nabawy) in an attempt to create the impossible: Peace in the Middle East. How could such a massive thing be done in such a short amount of time? Artistic Director Molly Smith directs the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright's incredible new play based on incredibly true events.

Thru - May 4, 2014

Price: $100 - $110

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes with no intermission

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MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...An ideal evening at the theater for precocious high schoolers and the politically curious, Lawrence Wright's Camp David is a primer on President Jimmy Carter's brokering of an uneasy peace in the Mideast conflict as it stood in 1978. Written with mild humor, a certain passion and a storyteller's talent, this lesson in the vital and complex problems of this political and religious morass slips down with the ease of a geopolitical gel cap."

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- Kate Wingfield

Washingtonian - Recommended

"...Rifkin’s Begin is perhaps the most complex character of the play and the most challenging to portray, and the actor, a TV and theater veteran, renders his flaws and his conviction with aplomb. Nabawy’s Sadat is as evasive as the Cheshire Cat and almost as charming. The show is at its most compelling when the two sparring leaders find moments of reconciliation—that they both learned English in prison, for instance, or when they happen upon each other praying in the forest. Although the final scenes have a deus ex machina quality that hinges around a remarkable piece of emotional blackmail by Carter, they also serve to remind us what the past 13 days have actually been about. Wright’s closing emphasis on the future instead of the past offers an insightful summation of the sort of reconciliation and compromise we can only hope to see again in our lifetimes."

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- Sophie Gilbert

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

Camp David centers on an enduring agreement forged 36 years ago, but present-day crises in the Middle East creep into the theater and very much inform your reactions to the play.

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- Jayne Blanchard

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