Wade Laura (Author) - Posh - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In an oak - panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub ten young undergraduates with cut - glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally "chatueaued". Members of The Riot Club an elite student dining society the fraternity starts to fray when they discover they're a guinea - fowl short and the prostitute they've hired is suddenly banished. An apparent spoof on Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club whose past members include Boris Johnson George Osborne and David Cameron Posh is a satirical play about power politics and privilege and how these elements interact within British institutions. The play is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Henry Bell. Posh premiered at the Royal Court Theatre London in 2010 and two years later opened in the West End. It was nominated for Best New Play at both the Evening Standard Awards and for the Theatregoers Choice Awards. It was subsequently made into a film called The Riot Club (2014) starring Sam Claflin Max Irons and Douglas Booth.
Title: Posh
Author(s): Wade Laura (Author), Henry (University Of The West Of Scotland) Bell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350235762
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 2/22/2024
Series: Student Editions
Category: Plays, Playscripts