ST. LOUIS ACTORS’ STUDIO 2008-2009 SEASON:
POWER AND POLITICS

May 15 - 31, 2009
Martha Mitchell Calling
by Jodi Rothe
Directed by Lana Pepper



Sometimes referred to as the “Mouth of the South,” Martha Mitchell could have played an important role in recent American history—if anyone had taken her seriously. The wife of John Mitchell, President Nixon’s Attorney General, she is most famous for her phone calls to the press regarding the administration’s Watergate scandal. Martha Mitchell Calling fleshes out the woman behind the headlines, and in doing so, gives her the vindication she never received in her lifetime.