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The Best of Friends is an epistolary play by Hugh Whitemore about the friendship of George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell, and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, based in the lengthy correspondence that passed between them for over 25 years. It was inspired by The Nun, the Infidel, and the Superman by Dame Felicitas Corrigan, a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook Abbey in the U.K.
Original Release
01/01/1991
US Release
10/18/1992
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| John Gielgud | Sydney Cockerell |
| Wendy Hiller | Laurentia McLachlan |
| Patrick McGoohan | George Bernard Shaw |
| Amma Asante | The Black Girl in Search of God |
| Paul Keown | The Conjurer |
| Alan Rowe | Mahomet |
Directors
Writers
Sidney Cockerell, Felicitas Corrigan, George Bernard Shaw, Hugh Whitemore, Laurentia McLachlan
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| John Gielgud | Sydney Cockerell |
| Wendy Hiller | Laurentia McLachlan |
| Patrick McGoohan | George Bernard Shaw |
| Amma Asante | The Black Girl in Search of God |
| Paul Keown | The Conjurer |
| Alan Rowe | Mahomet |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Tom Donald | Executive Producer |
| Johan Eliasch | Executive Producer |
| Steven North | Executive Producer |
| Alvin Rakoff | Producer |
