Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley

Coming not long after 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’s a show that offers a verbatim recreation of Buckley Jr’s 1965 showdown with Baldwin at the Cambridge University Union. The work by Christopher McElroen and the American Vicarious has already run several times in the US, and American performers Arnell Powell and Eric T Miller playing Baldwin and Buckley.