Published in 2016 (first published 2013)
96 pages
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress and writer. She is best known for creating, writing and starring in the comedy-drama series Crashing (2016) and Fleabag (2016–19), for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, and for developing and writing the first season of BBC America drama Killing Eve, based on novels by Luke Jennings.
What is this book about?
The foul-mouthed, hysterically funny, rip-roaring account of Fleabag, a twentysomething female struggling with being a woman today. Fleabag is an antiheroine, a refreshingly unique example of today’s modern woman. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer.
Naughty, funny, and dark, the BBC’s adaptation of Fleabag has been an outstanding hit, written by and starring Waller-Bridge.
It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for several successful runs, followed by a UK tour.
It 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 it was turned into a wildly successful and ‘utterly riveting’ (Guardian) BBC television series.
This edition also features an introduction by the author.
