Best of Enemies Freesheet

COMING UP...
CONUNDRUM
14 JAN – 4 FEB 2022
A Crying in the Wilderness Production in association
with the Young Vic
This evocative new drama, written and directed by
Paul Anthony Morris, dives headlong into a powerful
exploration of one man’s trajectory of embracing then
owning self-acceptance.
DEC
JAN
THE COLLABORATION
16 FEB – 2 APR 2022
“Boxers are like painters, both smear
their blood on the canvas.”
New York, 1984. A fifty-six year old Andy Warhol’s star is
falling. Jean-Michel Basquiat is the new wonder-kid taking the
art world by storm. When Basquiat agrees to collaborate with
Warhol on a new exhibition, it soon becomes the talk of the city.
Paul Bettany (The Avengers, Wandavision) is the iconic
Warhol and Jeremy Pope (Pose, Scandal) plays the magnetic
Basquiat in the world premiere of Anthony McCarten’s
thrilling new drama, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
A YOUNG VIC / HEADLONG CO-PRODUCTION
BEST OF ENEMIES
OKLAHOMA!
26 APR - 25 JUN 2022
This is Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it before,
re-orchestrated and reimagined for the 21st century. Winner
of the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Daniel
Fish’s bold interpretation transfers to the Young Vic, direct
from an acclaimed run on Broadway and an American tour.
Oklahoma! tells a story of a community banding together
against an outsider, and the frontier life that shaped America.
Seventy-five years after Rodgers and Hammerstein
reinvented the American musical, this visionary production
is funny and sexy, provocative and probing, without changing
a word of the text.
INSPIRED BY THE DOCUMENTARY BY MORGAN NEVILLE AND ROBERT GORDON
YOUNGVIC.ORG #YoungVic #YVBestofEnemies

William F. Buckley Jr
David Harewood
Gore Vidal
Charles Edwards
Howard K Smith, Bill McAndrew,
Mayor Daley
John Hodgkinson
David Brinkley, Andy Warhol,
Frank Meyer, Enoch Powell,
Bobby Kennedy & Ensemble
Tom Godwin
Writer
James Graham
Inspired by the
documentary by
Morgan Neville and
Robert Gordon
Director
Jeremy Herrin
Set and Costume
Designer
Bunny Christie
Lighting Designer
Paule Constable
Sound Designer
Tom Gibbons
Video Designer
Luke Halls
Composer
Benjamin Kwasi
Burrell
Movement Director
Shelley Maxwell
Associate Movement
Director
Sarita Piotrowski
Casting
Charlotte Sutton CDG
BEST OF ENEMIES
Voice and Dialect
Hazel Holder,
Gurkiran Kaur and
Salvatore Sorce
Jerwood Assistant
Director
Annie Kershaw
Jerwood Design
Assistant
Amy Finch
Boris Karloff Trainee
Assistant Director
Sabrina
Richmond
Production Manager
Helen Mugridge
Company Stage
Manager
Sarah Alford-Smith
Deputy Stage
Manager
Lorna Seymour
Assistant Stage
Manager
Louise Quartermain
Associate Video
Designer
Zakk Hein
CAST
William Sheehan, Chet Huntley,
Howard Austen & Ensemble
Emilio Doorgasingh
James Baldwin, George Merlis,
Harry Belafonte, Martin Luther King Jr
& Ensemble
Syrus Lowe
Patricia Buckley, Petula Clark
& Ensemble
Clare Foster
CREATIVE TEAM
Associate Designer
Verity Sadler
Props Supervisor
Lily Mollgaard
Assistant Props
Supervisor
Jamie Owens
Lighting Programmer
Saul Richardson
Lighting Operator
Saul Richardson
Production Sound
Engineer
Kyle MacPherson
Sound Number 1
Dylan Winn-Davies
Sound Number 2 and
Video Technician
Dom Cusack
Stage Crew
Ryan Underwood
Production Video
Engineer
Dan Bond
Video Programmer
Sam Lisher
Costume Supervisor
Zoë Thomas-Webb
Assistant Costume
Supervisor
Sebastian Freeburn
Wigs Supervisors
Judith Maya Abegg
Lisa Champion
Wardrobe Manager
Maddie Bevan
Wigs, Hair and
Make Up Manager
Faye Booth
Wigs, Hair and Make
Up Manager (cover)
Fanny Burgos
Costume Alterations
Edith Webb
Production Carpenter
Glyn Dodd
Access Consultant
Ben Wilson
Placement student
Jay Dawes –
Workshop
Runner (Tech Week)
Lizzie Cooper
Aretha Franklin, Party Guest,
NBC Producer, Cambridge Union
President, Brooke Gladstone,
TV Guide Interviewer,
Press & Ensemble
Justina Kehinde
Elmer Lower, Walter Cronkite,
Senator Ribicoff & Ensemble
Kevin McMonagle
Tariq Ali, Time Magazine
Interviewer, Matt & Ensemble
Sam Otto
Production
Prop Makers
Claire Sanderson
Bronia Topley
Scenic art by
Gabriella Miguel
Set built by
Scott Fleary
Lighting Equipment
Supplied by
White Light
Sound Equipment
supplied by
Stage Sound
Services
Video Equipment
supplied by
Universal Pixels
Communications
Equipment supplied by
Creative Technology
Vintage microphones
supplied by
Golden Age TV
Pantographs
supplied by
Ancient Lights
JAMES GRAHAM
WRITER
Theatre include: Bubble (Nottingham
Playhouse); Quiz (Chichester Festival
Theatre and Noël Coward Theatre); Ink
(Almeida Theatre, Duke Of York Theatre,
Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway);
Labour of Love (Noël Coward Theatre);
This House (National Theatre, Minerva
Theatre, Chichester (Revival); Garrick
Theatre and UK Tour); Monster Raving
Loony (Theatre Royal Plymouth and Soho
Theatre); Privacy (Donmar Warehouse
and Public Theatre Off Broadway, NYC);
The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); The
Angry Brigade (Theatre Royal Plymouth);
Finding Neverland (American Repertory
Theatre in Massachusetts, Lunt-Fontanne
Theatre on Broadway); Sweet Bird of
Youth (The Old Vic); Bassett (National
Theatre Connections, National Theatre,
Bristol Old Vic); The Tour Guide
(Edinburgh Festival); The Whisky Taster
(The Bush Theatre, London); A History
of Falling Things (Clwyd Theatre Cymru);
The Man, Sons of York, Eden’s Empire,
Little Madam, Albert’s Boy (Finborough
Theatre); Tory Boyz (Soho Theatre); Coal
Not Dole (Edinburgh Festival).
Film includes: Ink and X + Y.
Television includes: Sherwood, Quiz, The
Crown, Brexit: An Uncivil War, Coalition,
Caught in a Trap.
Special thanks to: National Theatre Costume Hire, Cooper Smith Associates, Walter Seymour, Holly Aston, Brooke Gladstone,
Sue Emmas, Ria Parry, Vicki Mortimer, Springboard YV Directors Program, Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme, Alecia Marshall,
Geva Films Ltd, Stephen Walsh, Almeida Theatre, Paul Jones, Mariah Louca, Flux Metal, Bridge Theatre, Impressive Flooring
Public Support
JEREMY HERRIN
DIRECTOR
Theatre include: All My Sons (The Old
Vic); The Visit, or the Old Lady Comes to
Call, The Plough and the Stars, Statement
of Regret (National Theatre); Common
(National Theatre/Headlong); People,
Places & Things (National Theatre/
Headlong/West End/UK tour/New York);
This House (National Theatre/Chichester/
West End); Labour of Love – Olivier
Award for Best Comedy, The Nether,
That Face, South Downs, Absent Friends,
Death and the Maiden (West End); Wolf
Hall, Bring Up the Bodies (RSC/West End/
Broadway); Junkyard, The Absence of War,
The Nether (Headlong); Observe the Sons
of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
(international tour); The Tempest, Much
Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe);
Almost Famous (The Old Globe, San
Diego); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/
West End); Haunted Child, The Heretic,
Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off the Endz,
The Priory – Olivier Award for Best
Comedy, Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour,
That Face (Royal Court); South Downs,
Uncle Vanya (Chichester); The Moderate
Soprano (Hampstead); Children’s Children
(Almeida); Marble (The Abbey, Dublin);
The Family Reunion (Donmar); Blackbird
(Market Theatre, Johannesburg); Gathered
Dust and Dead Skin, The Lovers, Dirty
Nets, Our Kind of Fun, Sudden Collapses
in Public Places, Toast, Smack Family
Robinson, Attachments, From the
Underworld, The Last Post, Personal
Belongings, NE1, Knives in Hens (Live
Theatre Newcastle).
Film includes: Linked, The Inventor,
Dead, Terry, Warmth.
Television includes: Unprecedented,
Sitting, Talking Heads, Cold Calling.
Jeremy Herrin was previously Artistic
Director of Headlong.
HEADLONG
CO-PRODUCERS
Headlong is one of the most ambitious
and exciting theatre companies in the
UK, creating exhilarating contemporary
theatre: a provocative mix of innovative
new writing, reimagined classics and
influential 20th century plays that
illuminate our world. Headlong make bold,
ground-breaking productions with some
of the UK’s finest artists. They take these
industry-leading, award-winning shows
around the country and beyond, in theatres
and online, attracting new audiences of
all ages and backgrounds. They engage as
deeply as they can with these communities,
and this helps them become better at what
they do. in 2020, during an unparalleled
period of global uncertainty, Headlong
partnered with Century Films and BBC
Arts to present Unprecedented, a series
of critically acclaimed digital plays
responding to the radical way that the
world changed when the first lockdown
was announced on the 23 March 2020.
Previous Headlong productions include
After Life, People, Places & Things,
Junkyard, The Nether, Pygmalion, This
House, Richard III and Labour of Love.
Headlong’s co-commission of Best of
Enemies is generously supported by
Cockayne – Grants for the Arts, The
London Community Foundation and The
John Ellerman Foundation.
Season Support
Annie Kershaw and Amy Finch are part of the Jerwood Assistant Director and Designer Program supported by Jerwood Arts.
Sabrina Richmond is part of the Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director Program supported by the Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation.
Best of Enemies is generously supported by The Charlotte Aitken Trust.
The Young Vic’s 2021 season is also supported by the Genesis Foundation and IHS Markit.
We gratefully acknowledge Ian Burford and Alec Cannell for generously supporting the Young Vic’s mission.