Posh (Oberon Modern Plays)

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The idea of being a stay-at-home mum seemed more socially acceptable than a woman leaving her job to be a housewife and look after her husband. Irons was initially repelled by the young characters in the screenplay, but then was seduced by Wade's purpose. When the pandemic caused theatres to close in March 2020, tickets were already on sale for the (now delayed) West End run of Wade’s most recent play, The Watsons, after its earlier success at Chichester Festival theatre and the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. When I began writing, we had a Labour government, but the "posh Tory" had started to reappear on the political landscape. Daniel Ryan as the landlord, alternately patronised and abused, and Simon Shepherd as a velvet-smooth Tory MP, are also spot on.

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It has an important message I think and has made me more aware of how untrustworthy social status is and how elitism is nothing to aspire to. With even a Tory attacking the "arrogant, posh boys" who run her party, now seems a good time to revive Laura Wade's 2010 play. Every day we make progress with the vaccine rollout and we can start to look forward to the full reopening at step four [ of the roadmap]”.they almost seemed to have the innocence of children because at one point when they can't throw money at their problems they don't understand why. We meet Guy, a second-year Oxford undergraduate meeting Jeremy, a wealthy high-Tory friend of his father. The play’s contrast of gender equality in the 1950s with the present day will also gain new resonance post lockdown. In an oak-paneled room in Oxford, ten young punks with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Not quite sure how it will translate, but the play itself is both very entertaining and astute about how an elitist attitude colors everything the upper classes touch.

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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.

She harpoons the masonic nature of much of English life in which self-perpetuating elites offer each other lifelong protection.

Laura Wade | Stage | The Guardian Laura Wade | Stage | The Guardian

The ending is particularly disturbing to me because this is something that obviously happens in society and that was the inference of corruption in politics in the UK.

Posh premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2010 and two years later opened in the West End. These speeches read like a parody of Marxist interpretation of history, just with proletariat replaced with "us" - us being the upper classes. Cuts to funding would lead to drama studies “becoming the preserve of people who can afford to do it,” said Wade.