Fleabag: The Special Edition (NHB Modern Plays)
81 printed pages
- Copyright owner
- Bookwire
- Original publication
- 2019
- Publication year
- 2019
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
Impressions
- Molly K.shared an impression4 years ago
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Quotes
- L Ahas quoted18 days ago
I would say that the design is the embodiment of the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle, which for the character of Fleabag is perfect in many ways. - L Ahas quoted18 days ago’d worked at the Edinburgh Festival in some capacity every year since I was seventeen so was confident I had a handle on how to lay the foundations for a successful show, even if we didn’t know what it was yet: a bold image (‘Let’s put Phoebe in a Batman suit on the roof of a building at 5 a.m. and take a picture for the poster’), the right time-slot (‘Let’s put the show on at 9.30 p.m. so we’re a funny theatre alternative to all the stand-up’), interesting copy (‘Let’s make sure we include the phrases “porny-wank” and “lovely threesome” in the marketing blurb’), the right venue (‘Let’s go to a space with a small capacity so we can definitely sell all the tickets’). I’m not saying that all those things made Fleabag the success it was in Edinburgh, but they definitely gave us a good head start.
- L Ahas quoted18 days agoTrust your instincts, and don’t panic. These are the two most enduring lessons I learnt producing Fleabag for the first time in 2013.
Whenever I’m reading a new play now, I’ll always seek out that same feeling I had the first time I read Chancing Your Arm, Phoebe’s short piece of comedy storytelling, which eventually evolved into this show. I didn’t know what Fleabag was about, but I did know it was going to be good.
Producing a play which is unfinished is not an easy task – at times I’d go as far as to say it was fully terrifying, especially when, the week before rehearsals started, Phoebe admitted she hadn’t actually written the play yet… In fact, rehearsals were essentially Phoebe writing the play and Vicky dramaturging it. As the producer you have to keep a calm head and I did my level best never to let anyone see how nerve-wracking it was for me – although there is a now-infamous story about the time I visited everyone in rehearsals, cool as a cucumber, left happily and then minutes later Char, our stage manager, found me breaking down in the broom cupboard.
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