Posh - Couverture souple

Wade, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350235768 ISBN 13 : 9781350235762

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Laura Wade's plays include The Watsons (Chichester Festival Theatre and Menier Chocolate Factory), Home, I'm Darling (Theatr Clwyd, National Theatre and West End), Posh (Royal Court Theatre and West End), Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Alice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer (Globe Theatre, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Other Hands (Soho Theatre), Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and MCC Theatre New York), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre), Catch (Royal Court Theatre, written with four other playwrights), Young Emma (Finborough Theatre), 16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement) and Limbo (Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield). Films include The Riot Club. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Best Play Award and the George Devine Award. Laura Wade's plays have been performed in the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Mexico.

Henry Bell is Senior Lecturer in Performance at University of the West of Scotland, UK where he also fulfils the role of Arts Lead of the Division of Arts and Media. Prior to academia, he worked as a literary manager, professional theatre director and applied theatre practitioner at a variety of organisations including Orange Tree Theatre (2009-2013) and Stephen Joseph Theatre (2013-2016). He edited and provided the introduction for the student edition of Posh published by Methuen Drama in 2024.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350235768
• ISBN 13: 9781350235762
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Éditeur: Bell Henry
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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