Top 10
And at Number 04…
…and just missing out on a place in the Top 3 is…
Click here for the original review of Hamlet de los Andes
And so we reach the final five…
Over the last few days Civilian Theatre has been counting down their Top 10 plays of 2013. The decision making process to find a top 10 was difficult enough to begin with, and there were at least five or six plays that were edged out in the end. It was a surprise to discover that Coriolanus – thoroughly enjoyable – did not get close and even David Tennant in Richard II was edged out; a particularly hard call given it sees one of my favourite verse-speakers meet one of my favourite plays by Shakespeare. A mention should also go to Harriet Walter – superb in a brave all-female production of Julius Caesar and the best Brutus that I have seen on stage, but with enough overall flaws to edge it out of contention.
But a reminder of what we have seen already
10) The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – Chichester Festival and Duchess Theatre
09) Ubu Roi – Cheek By Jowl at the Barbican’s Silk Street Theatre
08) Macbeth – Trafalgar Transformed at the Trafalgar Studios
07) Mydidae – Trafalgar Studios
06) Othello – Olivier Stage at the National Theatre