The Best Man

by Gore Vidal
directed by Tom Ross
August 22, 2008 - September 28, 2008

This show is SOLD-OUT.
show length: 2.5 hours, with intermission

Gore Vidal's The Best Man features two front runners for a political party nomination that will almost certainly make one the next President of the United States. Each candidate is in possession of some serious mud to sling and each has to decide just how dirty to play the game. Written with the deep insight of a true political insider (Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, the same year he penned the play) and the wit of a grand man of letters, The Best Man remains, as The New Yorker wrote in 2000, ”A sophisticated, elegant and damnably entertaining play!”

Just in time for the Fall election, Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross helms The Best Man, about which NY Magazine said “Gore Vidal's best play! Well-crafted and witty with surprises.”

Special Performance

Audience members are invited to attend a special post-show conversation directly following the Friday, September 26 performance of Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN at Aurora Theatre Company. An opportunity to engage in community discussion about some of the issues raised in the production, the conversation will focus on the political realities that we have confronted in the past, and those we will confront in the November voting booth.

Written in 1960, the themes present in THE BEST MAN are resonant today with the upcoming presidential election and, more locally, with California’s Proposition 8. The 20-minute audience-driven conversation will reflect upon some of the issues raised in THE BEST MAN and how the choices that we make directly impact our lives.