Posh (2010)

Cast and Crew List

Author: Laura Wade
Director: Lyndsey Turner

Leo Bill … as Alistair Ryle
Jolyon Coy … as Toby Maitland
David Dawson … as Hugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt
Richard Goulding … as George Balfour
Harry Hadden-Paton … as Harry Villiers
Kit Harington … as Ed Montgomery
Henry Lloyd-Hughes … as Dimitri Mitropoulos
Joshua Mcguire … as Guy Bellingfield
Tom Mison … as James Leighton-Masters
James Norton … as Miles Richards
Fiona Button …
Charlotte Lucas …
Daniel Ryan …
Simon Shepherd …

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Reviews

“Scabrously funny, disgustingly smug, and deeply disturbing, Laura Wade’s brilliant new play Posh shows a group of public school rich boys behaving badly in an Oxfordshire private dining club and lamenting their loss of a country they think they both own and created.

Clearly based on the Bullingdon at Oxford University, the play’s Riot Club is also a metaphor in the class divide, and represents a streak of political brutality in the Conservative Party that for the moment lies dormant as candidate “Dave” develops his compassionate image. ”

— Michael Coveney (WhatsOnStage)

“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. But while I’m glad to see the Royal Court confronting the supposedly taboo subject of class, the play occasionally overstates its case and raises issues of dramatic probability.”

— Michael Billington (The Guardian)

“In Laura Wade’s beautifully observed, very funny play, that world is anatomised. Her invention, the Riot Club, is a kind of Bullingdon lite — an Oxford coterie made up of minor aristos, landed yobs and foreign plutocrats. [...] The swanky horseplay, repellent yet fascinating, is brilliantly acted, while Lyndsey Turner’s skilful direction means there’s never a dull moment. There are deft and surprising touches, such as a close harmony version of Wiley’s electro-grime anthem Wearing My Rolex. Surrealism is never far away.

The ensemble work is outstandingly good: fluid, layered, always plausible.”

— Henry Hitchings (London Evening Standard)

“Braying, arrogant, narcissistic, sexist, cruel – deeply snobbish and filthy rich. Posh by Laura Wade, which has just opened at London’s Royal Court Theatre, is just about the worst advertisement for being young, loaded and at Oxford that you could imagine – and it’s totally plausible. The play is a lavish banquet of obnoxious, vindictive and destructive behaviour, male egos clanging in ghastly unison like gongs at High Table. It’s also killingly funny.”

— Dominic Cavendish (Telegraph)