Best Plays Of The Last Decade?

  By ekilko | May 4, 2010 - 1:53 pm | The Arts, The Culch, Theatre

Recently while at the bookshop of the National Theatre in London I noticed this bookshop display. It claimed to be the Best Plays of the Decade. Given that its 2010, it did get me thinking of what the best plays since the millennium were.

Included on their list were

  • Plastcine

  • The Seafarer

  • Pornogrphy

  • Stockholm

  • blue/orange

  • The Pride

  • Our Crisis

  • Taking Care of Baby

  • August On Stage Country

Obviously these are taken from a UK point of view but I really agree with The Seafarer (National’s Production at least) and Pornogrphy. I would also include Freefall ( Best Irish show of last year imo) The Pillowman, Improbable Frequency, The Wallworth Farce and Seawall.

So what do you think? What have you seen that has blown you away?


About ekilko

Eoin is usually back stage at most gigs and shows. Sometimes because hes working on them and sometimes because they wont let him in. Eoin works in the Music and Theatre industry but comedy and musicals are his real passion.

2 Responses to Best Plays Of The Last Decade?

  1. Sinead Keogh says:
    May 4, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    From an Irish perspective I really loved both The Pride of Parnell Street and Little Gem, definitely up there!

  2. Shell says:
    May 4, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Would agree with Sinead about Pride of Parnell Street - I thought that was great. Any thing by Christian O’Reilly and a piece of theatre that has stuck with me was Ivana Muller’s While we were holding it together. Oh and Michael Hardings The Tinkers Curse…powerful stuff