Best of Enemies

Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play

“A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television"

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…