A Young Vic / Headlong co-production
Best of Enemies Broadcast
Thu - Sat: 7.30pm Greenwich Mean Time
Sat matinee: 2.30pm Greenwich Mean Time
Running time: approx. 2 hours 25 mins (inc. interval)
Standard £15
Multi-viewer £20
Education group: up to 30 viewers £150
Education group: up to 20 viewers £100
Education group: up to 10 viewers £50
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Best of Enemies is the bold new play by James Graham (Quiz, Labour of Love), directed by Jeremy Herrin (This House, People, Places and Things).
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.
Show warnings
This show contains themes of racism, homophobia and violence. There is occasional use of homophobic and racist slurs as well as misgendering. There are references to murder, antisemitism and frequent strong language.
There is captioning, audio description and British Sign Language (BSL) provided for every live broadcast of Best of Enemies.
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Best Seat in Your House is made possible with public support from the UK Government's Culture Recovery Fund.
The development of Best Seat in Your House was supported by the Genesis Foundation's Genesis Kickstart Fund.
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Image Credit: David Harewood and Charles Edwards. Photos by Graham Pearson and Kofi Paintsil. Concept by Émilie Chen.
Writer James Graham
Inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon
Director Jeremy Herrin
Set and Costume Designer Bunny Christie
Lighting Designer Paule Constable
Sound Designer Tom Gibbons
Video Designer Luke Halls
Composer Benjamin Kwasi Burrell
Movement Director Shelley Maxwell
Associate Movement Director Sarita Piotrowski
Casting Charlotte Sutton CDG
Voice and Dialect Hazel Holder, Gurkiran Kaur and Salvatore Sorce
Jerwood Assistant Director Annie Kershaw
Jerwood Assistant Designer Amy Finch
Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director Sabrina Richmond
with Margo Cargill, Emilio Doorgasingh, Charles Edwards, Clare Foster, Tom Godwin, David Harewood, John Hodgkinson, Justina Kehinde, Syrus Lowe, Kevin McMonagle and Sam Otto.
There is captioning, audio description and British Sign Language (BSL) provided for every live broadcast of Best of Enemies.
