Best of Enemies

Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play<br/><br/>Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play<br/><i><br/></i><i>A man should never turn down two things. Sex and appearing on television.</i><br/><br/>1968 - a year of protest that divided America. As two men fight to become the next President all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr. and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal. Beliefs are challenged and slurs slung as these political idols feud nightly in a new television format debating the moral landscape of a shattered nation. Little do they know they're about to open up a new frontier in American politics and transform television news forever...<br/><br/><i>Best of Enemies</i> is the electric new play by James Graham (<i>Quiz Labour of Love</i>) directed by Jeremy Herrin inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon.<br/><br/>This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer at the Noel Coward Theatre in November 2022.