David Harewood cast as William Buckley in James Graham’s new play of fiery 1968 debates with Gore Vidal
It was a battle royale fought between American political titans, and it played out on screen in a series of televised bouts in 1968. Now James Graham, the leading British playwright behind the television drama Quiz and stage play Ink, is to put the historic clashes between the leading liberal Gore Vidal and conservative intellectual William F Buckley Jr at the centre of a new play, Best of Enemies.
Playing Buckley, a man who founded and edited the rightwing, libertarian National Review in 1955 and who worked briefly for the CIA, will be David Harewood, the actor known for his roles in the TV series Homeland and for playing Martin Luther King Jr on stage in The Mountaintop.
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