Posh (Oberon Modern Plays)

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Sam’s parents are Timothy West and Prunella Scales – does that make you part of a “theatrical dynasty”? London's Lyric Hammersmith to Present World Premiere of Laura Wade's Tipping the Velvet". playbill.com. Playbill. 15 April 2015 . Retrieved 19 April 2015. Tribes have always been interesting to me, and the vintage tribe – people who feel they are born in a time they don’t belong in – seemed like a really good canvas to talk about lots of issues around marriage and domesticity. Throughout the long development process, Lavender adds, Wade kept a close hold on the boys she had created.

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The following year, an all-female production of the play was staged at Pleasance Islington, directed by Cressida Carré and starring Cassie Bradley. [7] All 14 roles, male and female, were played by women. The play was performed as it was initially written by Wade, using the male names and the “he” pronoun. The playwright, Laura Wade, said: “It’s always interesting to see a new cast take on Posh, but it’ll be fascinating to see what light an all-female company can throw on the play’s world of power and privilege. I’m often asked what Posh would have been like if there were women in the Riot Club instead of men. Perhaps now I get to find out.” Theatre review: Colder Than Here at Soho Theatre". Britishtheatreguide.info . Retrieved 26 November 2016. I was reminded of a famous essay Henry Fairlie wrote in the Spectator in 1955, in which he defined "the establishment" as "the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power in Britain is exercised". First: I met a friend in the interval who asked me what I thought and I said I was enjoying it but that also I just felt like someone was repeatedly ramming my face in shit. I never quite lost that feeling. It is funny; but the funnier it is, the less funny it really is. I’m not Billington, I don’t want the play to sternly offer a punchy moral to the story, but I did wonder how sharply the political point of it all had been drawn. Posh tests its audience. It asks how far you will go with these boys on their journey - at what point you will stop excusing their actions: when you well cease to like them at allSnow, Georgia (31 October 2014). "Posh leads Nottingham Playhouse's spring 2015 season". The Stage. Nottingham . Retrieved 31 October 2014.

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Wade is now an accomplished 36-year-old West End playwright who has written about death, terminal illness and what might have happened to the lead female characters in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale during their 16-year exile from court. Now she is once again defending her assumptions about the upper classes because the film version of Posh, re-titled The Riot Club, opens this month, and Wade has adapted the screenplay. Directed by Dane Lone Scherfig, who made the equally English film An Education in 2009, Wade's story still centres on a group of overprivileged undergraduates who set about getting "chateaued" at a "trashable" dining club venue one night. The film bears the tag line "Filthy. Rich. Spoilt. Rotten", but perhaps it is the unofficial motto of Oxford's real-life Bullingdon Club, "I like the sound of breaking glass," that gives a clearer idea of the destructive decadence at its core.But tempers fray when they discover the 10-bird roast on which they are dining is a guinea-fowl short and when a prostitute they've hired is arbitrarily banished. Where did the idea of Home, I’m Darling – about a modern couple choosing to live the lifestyle and revert to the typical gender roles of the 1950s – come from?