Posh Girls review – boarding school besties on the couch
King’s Head theatre, London
This satire stars co-writers Harriet Chomley and Sophie Robertson as estranged friends who meet in therapy
Muscular writing is required to overcome the cliches of a two-hander set in therapy. Posh Girls may have swapped the analysts’ couch for a sofa in the waiting room, but actor-writer pair Harriet Chomley and Sophie Robertson don’t quite manage to wriggle out of the limitations of their show’s rather forced setup.
Posh Girls pitches itself as a satire of upper-class girlhood, full of careless flouncing, rounded vowels and ridiculous nicknames. When Alex (Chomley) and Hermione (Robertson) run into each other at their very expensive therapist’s, Alex’s offhand comment that her daddy owns the building gives a sense of scale to their wealth. But this is no eat-the-rich ridicule. Instead, this story of a fractured friendship peels away the fronts these 30-year-olds have put on for each other, revealing the traumatic challenges they have faced and the hole each one’s absence has left in the other’s life.
At the King’s Head theatre, London, until 2 February
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