Posh, Duke of York's

Royal Court Theatre Productions and Ambassador Theatre Group bring a season of the Royal Court Theatre's sell out shows to the heart of the West End. The Royal Court's West End season begins with Posh, Laura Wade's searing take on Britain's class, old money and the ultra privileged.

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. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't just a jolly: they're planning a revolution. Welcome to the Riot Club.... Read more >>

Running time: 2h 45m (including interval)

Posh Overview

By Laura Wade

Directed by Lyndsey Turner

Royal Court Theatre Productions and Ambassador Theatre Group bring a season of the Royal Court Theatre's sell out shows to the heart of the West End. The Royal Court's West End season begins with Posh, Laura Wade's searing take on Britain's class, old money and the ultra privileged.

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. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't just a jolly: they're planning a revolution. Welcome to the Riot Club.

'A heady blend of timely satire and outrageous romp'
Henry Hitchings Evening Standard, 24 May 2012

'Ten of the best young actors we've seen onstage since The History Boys'
Caroline McGinn, Time Out 24 May 2012

'Riotously Funny'
Financial Times

Written by Laura Wade, a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme whose play Breathing Corpses, won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Playwrights Best Play Award, the George Devine Award and an Olivier Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Posh is currently being adapted into a feature film for Blueprint Pictures.

Director Lyndsey Turner's work at the Royal Court includes Contractions, A Miracle and Our Private Life. Other theatre successes include Edgar and Annabel, There Is A War (National Theatre), Joseph K and Nocturnal (Gate); My Romantic History (Traverse, Bush, Sheffield Theatres) and The Lesson (Arcola).

The cast includes Max Bennett (In Basildon, Royal Court; Danton’s Death, National); Leo Bill (Girl With The Dragon Tattoo; Posh, Royal Court); Pip Carter (The Cherry Orchard and Gethsemane, National); Jolyon Coy (Posh and Before The Flood, Royal Court); Richard Goulding (The Soldier and the Maker, Barbican; Posh, Royal Court); Edward Killingback (Posh marks Edward’s professional stage debut); Harry Lister Smith (Hamlet, Sheffield Crucible); Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Inbetweeners, series and film; Posh, Royal Court); Charlotte Lucas (The Changeling, Young Vic; Posh, Royal Court); Joshua McGuire (Hamlet, Globe / International tour; Posh, Royal Court); Tom Mison (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen; Posh, Royal Court); Jessica Ransom (Doc Martin; The Wonder! A Woman Keep’s a Secret, BAC); Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey; Clybourne Park (Royal Court); Absent Friends, West End); and Simon Shepherd (Art, West End; Posh, Royal Court).

Age guidance 14+

The Royal Court and ATG Creative Learning offer bespoke production workshops for Posh and Jumpy for your school or group, aged 14+. Please contact Zoë Briggs, Creative Learning Officer at ATG by email zoebriggs@theambassadors.com or by phone 0207 420 4800.

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