Fleabag

NOMINATED: Olivier Award 2014
WINNER: Fringe First Award 2013
WINNER: The Stage Best Solo Performer 2013
WINNER: Off West End Award for Most Promising New Playwright 2013
WINNER: Off West End Award for Best Female Performance 2013
WINNER: Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising New Playwright 2013
SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2013
SHORTLISTED: Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2013

Following highly acclaimed, sell-out 2013 runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, one of the most talked about new plays by Soho Theatre Associate Company DryWrite returns in May 2014 to the main space at Soho as a co-production. The Fleabag is back.

Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, one of our very brightest upcoming talents (Evening Standard), this is a hilarious bittersweet show about some sort of female living her sort of life. Waller-Bridge has crafted some great gags - often genuinely affronting - and director Vicky Jones keeps them funny... Troubling, visceral and - most of all - pressing, Fleabag is a daring debut that makes up its own rules. I've never seen a play quite like it (The Scotsman). This naughty, sharp-edged and funny favourite is directed by Vicky Jones, whose critically-acclaimed play The One was winner of the 2013 Verity Bargate Award for best new play.

Welcome to the world of Fleabag where the rules are out the window and she’s getting confused. She’s angry, pervy, confrontational, cruel, forgetful, unforgiving, flippant, capricious, but undeniably honest. For one hour only, Fleabag lets us see the world through her eyes as we follow her life, love, loss and heartbreak. This is comedy story-telling at its very best with all the unspoken nitty-gritty of real life. This is the portrait of a girl who isn’t afraid to admit what she thinks is wrong with her.