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.
NEWS: Fleabag creators return to Soho with Vicky Jones’ Touch
Touch, the fourth exciting new collaboration between Soho Theatre and Fleabag creators DryWrite, will be premiered next year in a limited season running from 6 July to 12 August 2017.
NEWS: After TV success, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag returns to Soho Theatre
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, the multi-award winning production from Soho Theatre associate company DryWrite, returns home to our stage for two weeks only, from Monday 5 December, as part of Soho Theatre’s autumn season.
Review: Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Soho Theatre)
Fleabag is the treatise on sex and self-indulgence Helen Fielding never dared put in the mouth of Bridget Jones. With no prospect of a Mark Darcy to rescue her, Waller-Bridge’s Single White Female finds her self-determination through online porn, indiscriminate sex and binge drinking … This is a woman who the tabloid advice columns would […]
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