Review by: Paul Towers, 16 May 2018
Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
A Soho Theatre & Dry White production directed by
Vicky Jones and performed by Maddie Rice
Curve 16 – 19 May 2018
“laugh, cry and be shocked all within minutes"
This is the stage show based on the BBC series which in
itself was born of the Edinburgh
Festival show by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Fleabag (that is the nearest we get to an actual name) takes
us careering through her life as she copes with the death of her best friend, a
chaotic sex/love life and a failing business. Add into the mix the untimely death
of Hillary, the sole link she still has with her dead best friend, and you have
some idea of the mess her life is in. Hillary, by the way, is a guinea pig (it
is way too complicated to explain!)
Fleabag unburdens herself to us, a stand in for her BFF, and drags us through her chaotic
series of one-night stands, social anxiety
and disastrous job interviews.
All this tumbles out unfiltered, outrageously, graphically filthy
and hilariously inappropriate.
As played by Maddie Rice, Fleabag instantly draws you into
her world, unsavoury as it is. With just a single chair on a raised dais, Rice creates
this extraordinary place where we laugh, cry and are shocked all within minutes.
A nice batch of half a dozen voice-overs fill in the gaps as Fleabag lurches
from one crisis to another.
This show is huge fun so long as you have a broad mind.
Catch this hilarious show at Curve until Saturday 19th
May
www.curveonline.co.uk
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