“Fleabag Live”, creator Phoebe Waller Bridge’s on-demand performance of her original stage hit, brilliantly mirrors the comedy and unique factors of the hit television show it spawned.
It’s a lockdown lifeline for audiences, but is online theatre any good?
Online theatre is a great way to see shows, especially in these hard times, and especially for those who cannot afford or are able to watch them live because they live further away from London.
‘The one-woman play is far superior to the TV series’: FLEABAG – Soho Theatre (Online review)
When DryWrite co-Artistic Director Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote Fleabag back in 2013, it needed to be crowdfunded in order for it to be premiered at that year’s Edinburgh Festival.
Acting for Others: Tune in for Fleabag, Hear the West End Sing, All the Web’s a Stage & other online fundraisers
Theatrical charity Acting for Others has announced the formation of a separate Covid-19 Fund which will be available to its 14 member charities.
NEWS: Death Of A Salesman, Rosmersholm, Cyrano plus & Juliet lead the Olivier Awards 2020 nominations
The nominations have been announced for this year’s Olivier Awards which take place on 5 April 2020 at the Royal Albert Hall.
Mind the Blog’s Favourite female performances of 2019
As with last year, there were too many brilliant performances to restrict this to one combined list – so once again I’ve split them up into male and female performances.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Fleabag at Wyndham’s Theatre
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s play Fleabag that inspired the hit television series is making its West End debut at the Wyndham’s Theatre for a limited season. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews.
NEWS: Producers announce three new ways to see Fleabag in the West End
DryWrite, Soho Theatre and Annapurna Theatre have announced that there are three brand new ways to see the critically-acclaimed, multi-award-winning Fleabag in the West End this summer, written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
NEWS: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s last stage performances of Fleabag will be in the West End this summer
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically-acclaimed, multi-award-winning play Fleabag will have a four-week West End premiere run this summer. Directed by Vicky Jones, the one-woman show has just completed a sold-out Off-Broadway season and second season on BBC Three.
MISSED THE BOAT: Fleabag
Thankfully, Nick Hern Books has published the playtext of Fleabag, so I thought it was about time I made the most of that for this series of posts.
‘They take the humour to another level’: FLEABAG – Touring
Now, Soho Theatre and DryWrite (the latter of which is run by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Vicky Jones) are taking Fleabag on the road again, handing down the performing reins to Maddie Rice.
TOUCH – Soho Theatre
Latest play from DryWrite’s Vicky Jones provides a vivid picture of contemporary metropolitan womanhood.
TOUCH – Soho Theatre
Touch may come from the same stable as the amazing Fleabag but drops the posh and goes Welsh: imagine Stacey left Gavin for a squalid London studio, a diet of Echo Falls, microwave dinners and random sex and you have Amy Morgan’s deliciously messed-up Dee.
TOUCH – Soho Theatre
If there was such a thing as `chick-lit’ in theatre, this would be the nearest thing to it. But that would neither be respectful nor entirely accurate.
TOUCH – Soho Theatre
The bed is the first thing we see. The mess is the second. By the end of the evening, we see just how messy one bed can get.
TOUCH – Soho Theatre
If there was such a thing as `chick-lit’ in theatre, this would be the nearest thing to it. But that would neither be respectful nor entirely accurate.
NEWS: From eight shows to over 3,000, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe launches its 70th anniversary programme
The official 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme was launched today with shows catering for all ages and appetites, inviting performers and spectators from around the world to join the Alliance of Defiance and celebrate 70 years of defying the norm at the Fringe.
Text of the Day: Fleabag
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Re-review: FLEABAG – Soho Theatre
Phoebe Waller-Bridge would have every reason to look stressed as she has certainly been keeping busy – writing and starring in two TV shows this year alone – and she also point to extraordinary levels of success too, as the entire run of this return of Fleabag to the Soho Theatre sold out in less than 10 minutes.
FLEABAG – Soho Theatre
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television hit returns to the stage, still rocking with laughter and coolness.
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