Posh (Oberon Modern Plays)

Product Information

The play premiered at Lyric Hammersmith in September 2015, [11] before transferring to the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.

Posh: : Modern Plays Laura Wade Oberon Books - Bloomsbury Posh: : Modern Plays Laura Wade Oberon Books - Bloomsbury

Grace Molony (Emma Watson) and Louise Ford (Laura) in Laura Wade’s The Watsons at Chichester Festival theatre. Photograph: Nigel Norrington Posh nosh – Richard Goulding, Leo Bill, Harry Lister Smith and Henry Lloyd-Hughes as tempers fray over dinner.Laura Wade's new play is highly topical: it is about the sense of entitlement to power of a privileged, wealthy, public school and Oxbridge elite. Wade's social critique manages to be both infuriating yet funny, and at times shockingly outrageous. It has “felt like a rolling back”, said Wade, who suggested “women have been particularly hard hit over the last year”. There are some intensifications of the ritual; the oaths, the rules, the costumes - which at one point flare into further life with the arrival of the ghost of the Club’s founder - and there are games and forfeits galore. It’s the first time we’ve worked together in this dynamic, so there was trepidation about whether we could separate work and home – what if it all got a bit tense?

Laura Wade: ‘Theatre has something important to offer in Laura Wade: ‘Theatre has something important to offer in

When I began writing, we had a Labour government, but the "posh Tory" had started to reappear on the political landscape. The film stars a trio of young British screen heartthrobs, Douglas Booth, Max Irons and Sam Clafin, to sweeten the pill. It holds true to the dark and privileged story of the original script while twisting and highlighting certain aspects of the text in a new way.Home, I’m Darling is at the Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough, 9 July-14 August, at the Octagon, Bolton, in September and at Theatre By the Lake, Keswick, 6-30 October. The names may have changed, as life in Chipping Norton shows, but that remains essentially true today.

Laura Wade: her play Posh put a spotlight on the spoilt

In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. It does not give the play over to wholesale caricature, but it slips the last surly bonds of “realism” and unveils a piece that now comes across as a biting, grotesque fable about a class that wants to reassert its brutal rights to special treatment – with the exhilarating twist that the oppressors are played by a group traditionally perceived as oppressed. What’s so exquisitely timed about the play is that you roar with horrified laughter at the antics of these fucking shits and then you remember that these fucking shits are now running the country.

Originally, I studied it at university, taught by a brilliantly enthusiastic teacher and I have had the pleasure of rereading it, sharing it with my reading group. I do believe that Wade did push the boundaries a little with the pure disrespect these boys have for the pub owner and premises, including women too, but the outrageous antics only add to the fuel of the fire. I've always felt it important that we do like them - that we're drawn in by their antics at the beginning, we admire their fluency and their banter, and enjoy their in-jokes and silliness (they're not afraid to be very silly with each other). For the theatre director Thea Sharrock this translation to screen is a big success: "I loved it even more than the play," Sharrock said this weekend.