Cuts to funding would lead to drama studies “becoming the preserve of people who can afford to do it,” said Wade. “For me, that would have been a problem.”

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BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Drama, Looking for Angels, Looking for Angels: Otherkin". Bbc.co.uk. 30 August 2007 . Retrieved 26 November 2016. We have two girls, and we think a lot about how we raise them as girls, what role models are available to them, what stories, and where they can see themselves in art. With that increased awareness it feels important to create work that isn’t exploitative, that tells positive stories, and to write about things that matter. Theatre review: Breathing Corpses at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs". Britishtheatreguide.info . Retrieved 26 November 2016. The government has insufficiently supported the crisis-hit theatre industry because it wants to “discourage ideas and dissent” the leading playwright Laura Wade has warned. Researching a secret society isn't easy. I spoke to people from other, slightly less cloak-and-dagger clubs, and people who had been on the fringes of these societies: a woman who'd dated a club member, for example, and a man who'd been invited to introductory drinks but decided not to join. To a great extent, though, I had to imagine my way in to the club. The thing that spurred me on was knowing I'd never be invited to that dinner, that I'd always be on the other side of the door. And what would I hear if I listened at that keyhole? As they say in the film, "If you have to ask [to join], you're not really the right sort of chap." Excluded from their world by gender and class, I was free to consider their relationship with each other as a group, and as men - they're so much more comfortable with men than they ever are with women. I thought of it in an anthropological sense, not a feminist one: it had to be a story about a group of men for us to believe they would hold positions of power in the future - there are still only three women in the cabinet, so it wouldn't work to write them as Riot girls.Wade, Laura. "Oberon Books – The UK's most exciting independent publisher". Oberonbooks.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 26 November 2016. Theatre review: Colder Than Here at Soho Theatre". Britishtheatreguide.info . Retrieved 26 November 2016. Laura Wade’s new play, Pos h, opened in the middle of the election campaign, as intended, as a minor intervention in that process. Set during one evening in the dining room of a rural pub-restaurant, it followed the ‘Riot Club’ in their arcane rituals as they drink and eat to excess and then smash the room up. It’s based loosely on the Bullingdon Club at Oxford, whose former members include the current Mayor of London, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister. Any club that produced the three most powerful politicians in England is worth examining and I’ve been looking forward to it. In February 2015 the regional premiere was co-produced by Nottingham Playhouse and Salisbury Playhouse, directed by Susannah Tresilian. [8] Film adaptation [ edit ]

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Posh Is about a tribe. And like the play, the film - renamed *The Riot Club * - takes us on a night out with a tiny, exclusive dining society at Oxford University, loosely inspired by the Bullingdon boys. They put on their bespoke tails and hold their termly dinner at a country pub with the express intent of trashing the room by the end of the evening and paying for the damage with a large wad of cash on the way out. First: I met a friend in the interval who asked me what I thought and I said I was enjoying it but that also I just felt like someone was repeatedly ramming my face in shit. I never quite lost that feeling. It is funny; but the funnier it is, the less funny it really is. I’m not Billington, I don’t want the play to sternly offer a punchy moral to the story, but I did wonder how sharply the political point of it all had been drawn. Brian Cox and Bill Paterson return to Lyceum for 50th anniversary season". list.co.uk. The List. 14 April 2015 . Retrieved 19 April 2015. There are some intensifications of the ritual; the oaths, the rules, the costumes - which at one point flare into further life with the arrival of the ghost of the Club’s founder - and there are games and forfeits galore. This makes the play continually watchable, oiled smoothly by bitingly horrible dialogue and characters.American premiere, produced by Luna Theater Company at Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, October 2007