by Laura Wade
2010's controversial black comedy.
In the Oxford Union now.
The Oxford Union, Debating Chamber
- Founded in 1823
- "The last bastion of free speech in the Western world." - Harold Macmillan
- Thirteen Prime Ministers grew up here to date
- One of the most prestigious and spectacular halls in the world
- But you can come in if you pay, commoner.
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 the last huzzah.
They're planning a takeover.
Welcome to the Riot Club.
We're down here,
come get us
come get us
The Crew
Director: Susanna Quirke
Producer: Laura Aitken-Burt
Set Design: Sarah Chesshyre
Costume: Bronya Arciszewska
Assistant Costume: Izzy Staton
Prduction Manager: Alexandra Ford
Stage Manager: Charlotte Meakin
Lighting Design: Douglas Perkins
Marketing: David-Jason Gordon and Siobhan Abraham
PR: Madeline Grant
Print Design: Sophie Stephenson-Wright
Music: Will Marshall
With thanks to Izzy Westbury and the team at the Union.
And this is
our stage
our stage
The Writer
Laura Wade's first play Limbo was produced at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, when she was 18 years old. She later trained with the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme in London, and was a Writer on Attachment at Soho Theatre.
Plays include Posh (Royal Court Theatre), Alice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Other Hands (Soho Theatre), Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and MCC Theatre New York), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre), Catch (Royal Court Theatre, collectively-written with four other playwrights), Young Emma (Finborough Theatre), and 16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement). Most recently, Laura Wade's play for voices Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer was performed as part of a concert programme with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, on a tour of venues across Australia including the Sydney Opera House.
Awards include the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson
Best Play Award and the George Devine Award. Laura Wade's plays have also
been performed in the USA, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany and the
Netherlands, and are published by Oberon Books in the UK and Dramatists Play Service in the USA.
Laura Wade has also written a number of plays for broadcast on BBC Radio, including
Good Times Roll, Otherkin, Hum and Coughs and Sneezes. She is currently working
with Blueprint Pictures to develop a feature film version of Posh, with the support of the BFI Film Fund.
And this is
our stage
our stage
Buy Tickets w/ Ticketmaster
Evening Performances (7:30 pm): Nov 21/22/23/25
Matinee (2:30 pm): Nov 25th
Tickets: £9
Concessions and Union Members: £7
For more information, contact poshoxford@gmail.com
An Oxford student production
