Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley

Hot on the heels of James Graham’s smash play ‘Best of Enemies’ which featured a recreation of the debates between Gore Vidal and political commentator William F Buckley Jr, and also a cameo from the great Black American intellectual James Baldwin, here a show that offers a verbatim recreation of Buckley Jr’s 1965 showdown with Baldwin at the Cambridge University Union. The show by Christopher McElroen has already run several times in the US, and American performers Teagle F Bougere and Eric T Miller here reprise their roles as Baldwin and Buckley.