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Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Fleabag: The Original Play

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.'

The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. Fleabag premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for the first of several successful runs, followed by UK and international tours, a sold-out run in New York and a West End run in 2019.

Fleabag won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh, the Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance at the Off West End Theatre Awards, The Stage Award for Best Solo Performer and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. It received a Special Commendation in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
In 2016, Fleabag was turned into a wildly successful and 'utterly riveting' (Guardian) BBC television series, with a second series following in 2019.
This edition features the original play, plus an introduction by the author.
37 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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Quotes

  • melooozhas quoted7 months ago
    BOO. He’s obviously not happy. Happy people don’t do things like that.

    FLEABAG. Fair point.

    BOO. And anyway, that’s the very reason they put rubbers on the ends of pencils.

    FLEABAG (to BOO). To fuck hamsters?

    BOO. No, because people make mistakes.
  • melooozhas quoted7 months ago
    FLEABAG. Yeah. People are… shit.

    He turns and I can see into every deep line on his face.

    JOE. Oh no, darlin’. People are amazing, but… when will people realise… that people are all we got?

    FLEABAG. He smiles, but I feel a bit ambushed. I pretend I have to wash the cappuccino machine, go inside and wipe the nozzle a bit.
  • melooozhas quoted7 months ago
    Ultimately, for the Fleabag audience, I wanted the drama of this woman’s story to leap into their open, laughing mouths and find its way deep into their hearts.
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