David Harewood as William F Buckley (Photo: Wasi Daniju)
REVIEW: Best of Enemies, Young Vic (2021) to transfer to the West End in November 2022. Theatre not yet announced
In the debate scenes, the actors speak the words that Vidal and Buckley actually spoke. Outside the debates, they confer with their advisers about how to beat the other man, and – vain in a way that only television can make people – they protest to the network that the other man is getting more of the camera.