Best of Enemies - Young Vic / Noel Coward Theatre

Seating plan now online for selecting your own seats on the young vic website with seats at all price ranges.

With Hamlet, I was in the same position - as soon as the seating plan was available, I emailed to find out what seats I had been allocated - and was able to swap to ones that were more to my liking. You could try that

Thanks - I'll try emailing to ask the seat numbers.

As a follower of Christopher Hitchens I always found these two to be pompous pricks, which isn't to say Hitch wasn't also at times (esp. in his DC period). Nonetheless, all were good at presenting and challenging positions.

Anyway, you can get more than a flavour of all three on Youtube.


It's be interesting to see if this writer can add something or whether it's a matter of cashing in on Frost/Nixon, et al. I'm hopeful of good work.

It looks like the same they had for "Blood wedding". I was sitting in the £10 seat and the production was sort in thr round with a prevalence of the time acted towards the front (so I was watching their backs from time to time). I am sure it will not be a problem, otherwise they would have not chosen a staging in the round.

Libby Purves (Theatrecat) has given it 4 stars, though she always seems generous. Now I know I will want to see this I am keen to know my seat location as I booked months ago and have one of those tickets for which the seat is specified nearer the time.

Was it booked before they knew the layout? I booked when it was first on sale and emailed the box office recently to find out my seat numbers.

It was, thank you and yes, I can actually call in today. Of course now OH is interested (he will do this, months after I've booked a single ticket and at a low price) so as well as obtaining my seat location, I need to see if I can book for him too, so I will probably have to change the date, pay more and accept 2 single seats.

This was pretty good. Decent performances focussing of course on Charles Edwards and David Harewood. As always with Headlong, diverting in terms of projections, some noisy interludes and filmed sections. I wasn’t particularly moved, but of course it is as relevant now in terms of politics - performance vs substance, the media and society’s attitude to race. Well paced and hard working ensemble. Another hit for the Young Vic, which remains one of the most exciting theatres still in central London.

For those of you asking about seating, it’s in the round, so if the auditorium is a clock, the stage is at 11-1. Seating goes all around from 2-10, but those at 2 and 10 - particularly the gallery and top two rows of the stalls will miss the “TV gallery” and some projections behind the stage. But at £10 for my seat in the 10 o’clock position lower down during a preview, this was great value.

It is though performed mostly in the round, and when the actors‘ backs are towards you during the debates, the smaller monitors facing you pick up their faces.

I wonder where it could go though? So many shows in the West End now bedding in for a long run.

For those who have seen this, how "forward staged" is it. Would I be looking at backs a lot from the £10/£20 seats?

I've got tickets for mid-January for one of their socially distanced performances. I am (just) old enough to slightly remember William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal, so that adds to my curiosity. Once a southern writer said wearily to Buckley, 'Why, Mister Buckley, I believe you were born for argument.'

'noisy interludes' great...