★★★★★ There’s a real feeling of girl power and camaraderie, which I think is what attracted me to the show so much. The whole experience made for a roaringly good night, with the audience on their feet by the end of the performance. A whole lot of fun, and a soundtrack to enjoy afterwards.
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★★★★☆ There is a great deal of poignancy in this play: when we realise that Susie’s younger sister, Lindsey, is now older than her, or when she watches her father lose his grip on his world, and her mother begin an affair; but there are also very funny moments throughout.
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★★★★☆ The play centres round a long-running rape trial in 1612 Rome. Painter Agostino Tassi is accused of the rape of a young woman, Artemisia Gentileschi. He is a friend of her father and her sometime art tutor, and is greatly respected in the city, frequently commissioned to paint for the Pope . . .
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★★★★☆ The play is set in Jamaica, focussing on three women, Local, Regular, and Novice. Local, played by Sharla Smith, is a native islander, eking out a living in the country’s tourist trade; Gracy Goldman is Regular – a wealthy, old (not so old) white woman who visits Jamaica every year; and Rachel Summers plays Novice, a young white woman who has saved hard to be able to afford her first trip to the Caribbean.
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★★★★★ The fictional characters in Posh are the same people as the real life characters in British parliament. Laura Wade’s play is a thinly-veiled look at the Bullingdon Club, the covert, exclusive Oxford dining club; a club in which, famously, two of our last three Prime Ministers have been members (not, god-forbid, the woman, of course).
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