New play Posh Girls will expose the secret side of Britain’s elite private schools when it debuts at the King’s Head Theatre.
Going behind the clichéd tuck boxes, tartan kilts and jovial escapades, it will look at the messy experiences of navigating platonic and romantic relationships during adolescence, and how these formative experiences can be exacerbated in the isolating environment of boarding school.
Posh Girls follows ex-best friends Hermione Winter and Alexandra Thornton Pugh meeting unexpectedly for the first time in twelve years in the waiting room of their therapist’s office.
From inseparable companions to complete strangers, they reflect on their past, what went wrong, and if burnt bridges can be rebuilt in a play that discusses teenage competitiveness, peer pressure and growing up in a time prior to discussions around consent with humour and light-hearted comedy.
Co-writer Sophie Robertson (Derry Girls, The Irregulars) makes her professional theatre performance debut, partnering with Harriet Chomley (The Lion’s Den). It is also the directorial theatre debut for Steve Waddington (Vincent & Agostina).
Posh Girls runs from Tuesday, January 28-Sunday, February 2 (not January 31).