REVIEW: Debate: Baldwin Vs Buckley, Wilton’s Music Hall

REVIEW: Debate: Baldwin Vs Buckley, Wilton’s Music Hall

An impassioned production based on the famous 1965 debate features strong performances yet somehow it doesn't feel quite like theatre. (c)American vicarious As a place filled with history, it feels appropriate that Christopher McElroen's Debate: Baldwin Vs Buckley arrives at Wilton's Music Hall this week. Reconstructing the February 1965 debate at the Cambridge Union between…

The Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley – Wilton’s Music Hall

Timing is everything they say. The Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley could have not come at a better time. Watching a play that asks “Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?”, just days before the Super Bowl, amid conservative outrage over Puerto Rican Bad Bunny being “not American enough” to perform at this all-American cultural institution, and against the backdrop of renewed ICE arrests, makes the piece feel disturbingly real and…

Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley – Wilton’s Music Hall, London

Adapter and Director: Christopher McElroen In February 1965, the Cambridge Union, the university’s debating society, hosted a debate about the state of the United States of America, which was broadcast live by the BBC. The attention was due to the Union having secured two famous Americans to contribute to the motion that “the American Dream [...] The post Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley – Wilton’s Music Hall, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.

DEBATE: BALDWIN VS BUCKLEY review by thespyinthestalls

DEBATE: BALDWIN VS BUCKLEY Wilton’s Music Hall ★★★★ “a vital reminder that dangerous ideas often come speaking eloquently and dressed in a nice suit” In 1965, two prominent American intellectuals, acclaimed Black author James Baldwin and white conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. met at Cambridge University to debate the motion ‘The American dream is at the expense of the American negro’ before a crowd of students, who would vote for…

Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley

Wilton's Music Hall, London **** Adapted & directed by Christopher McElroen Arnell Powell and Eric T. Miller Only on for this week, Debate: ...