WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-six years after President Jimmy Carter made peace between Egypt and Israel, “Camp David” is now both history and theater.

Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, returned to Washington on Thursday night to open a new play at Arena Stage about one of their greatest achievements in the White House. “Camp David” retraces 13 days of tense negotiations in 1978 at the presidential retreat in Maryland that produced an unlikely but lasting peace agreement.