National Theatre

Best of Enemies

by James Graham
directed by Jeremy Herrin
inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon

David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama.

In 1968 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 unruly liberal Gore Vidal.

During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.  As beliefs are challenged and slurs slung, a new frontier in American politics is opening and television news is about to be transformed forever.

Filmed live in London’s West End.