Royal Court Theatre Productions and Ambassador Theatre Group present a Royal Court West End Season

POSH

Written by Laura Wade
Directed by Lyndsey Turner

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.

Following the recent success of Jerusalem and Clybourne Park, the Royal Court returns to the West End with these shrewdly perceptive and razor sharp new plays by some of the UK's finest writers with Posh by Laura Wade, Jumpy by April de Angelis, and Constellations by Nick Payne – three of the biggest sold out hits in its history.

JUST ANNOUNCED

POSH: A Conversation
With LAURA WADE and LYNDSEY TURNER
Writer and Director of Posh

Tuesday 3rd July
Duke of York's Theatre
6.00pm - 6.45pm
£5.00

Join Laura Wade (writer) and Lyndsey Turner (director) as they discuss the production, the creative process and its development from inception to West End transfer at this exclusive event at the Duke of York’s Theatre.

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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.

Get the Posh Resources Pack here.

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POSH on Sunrise Sky News - Click to view Video

Laura Wade's play gets political update for West End BBC Online - Click to view

Queen of theatre's brat pack The Independent - Click to view

Review: The dressed-up members of an Oxford dining club come rapping alive from the gilded frames of ancestral portraits Whatsonstage - Click to view

Article: Shades of patriotic Posh Whatsonstage - Click to view

Pics: First Night Photos - Looking preened at Posh Whatsonstage - Click to view

Pics: Posh press night and after-party Tatler - Click to view

Review: one ultra-depraved night in the company of the Oxford University 'Riot Club' Time Out - Click to view

Review: The all but colonial desire of the public schoolboy to win ownership over ghetto style is powerfully enacted The Arts Desk - Click to view

Q&A: Posh Official London Theatre - Click to view

Rising London Star Tom Mison on Juggling Movies, TV and the Timely West End Comedy Posh Broadway.com - Click to view

Review: POSH is quite simply a riot The Londonist - Click to view

Review: Laura Wade's Bullingdon satire triumphs in its well-deserved West End transfer The Evening Standard - Click to view

Exclusive Interview: Henry Lloyd-Hughes Talks 'Posh' TheatrePeople.com - Click to view

Rich pickings: a 'Posh' exclusive TimeOut London (Now. Here. This.) - Click to view

Return of the Thugs The Guardian - Click to view

Made in Oxford Grazia - Click to view

New POSH Trailer

Posh Press Night - Duke of York's

Behind the Scenes - Press Photoshoot

Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph

Michael Billington, The Guardian

Dominic Maxwell, The Times

Henry Hitchings, The Evening Standard

Caroline McGinn, Time Out

Sarah Henning, Financial Times

Mark Shenton, Sunday Express

Heatworld

Wickedly funny satire, brilliantly staged Dominic Maxwell, The Times

Blackly comic and disgracefully entertaining drama Charlie Spencer, The Telegraph

A terrific revival of a hugely enjoyable play Sarah Hemming, Financial Times

Superb writing Robert Gore-Langton, Mail-on-Sunday

A heady blend of timely satire and outrageous romp Henry Hitchings Evening Standard

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

Disgracefully enjoyable Caroline McGinn Time Out

Entertaining, surprising and brutally funny - the hottest ticket in town Heatworld.com

As in the Eighties, Another Country launched the careers of Rupert Everett, Kenneth Branagh, Daniel Day-Lewis and Colin Firth, FUTURE STARS ARE BEING BORN HERE Mark Shenton, Sunday Express

It's savage Henry Hitchings Evening Standard

On Thursday 14 June at 6pm we hosted a high-profile panel discussion chaired by Alastair Campbell, writer and head of communications for Tony Blair’s government. Also on stage were Rebecca Johnson (Editor of The Lady), Luciana Berger (Labour MP), and Dr James Tilley (Oxford University Lecturer). Below is a snapshot of the debate – tell us your thoughts on @Poshtheplay, #PoshDebate.

Duke of York's @Poshtheplay
Alistair asks What happens when a group of young people who have only ever heard 'yes' are suddenly told 'no'? #PoshDebate

Duke of York's @Poshtheplay
Luciana says 65% of the cabinet are now Oxford/Cambridge educated. What impact does that have? #PoshDebate

Duke of York's ‏@Poshtheplay
Alistair suggests Rachel run for conservative leader, she asks him to be her campaign manager #PoshDebate

Duke of York's ‏@Poshtheplay
Rachel Johnson believes in order to bring change,we have to force universities to take on students from more diverse backgrounds #PoshDebate

Laura ‏@LauraCollins90
I am on a train with real live ‏‏@LauraCollins90 guys. Described the house of commons as "banterish" #savage

Pre match psychological limbering with Rachel Johnson pre #PoshDebate