FLEABAG the NTlive 2019 blockbuster returns in July 2023, with Special Event Screenings in Australian Cinemas. FLEABAG is the Pure British comedy delight, clever and equally blunt plus abrupt. Entertaining scene after scene, repeatedly delivered with very strong coarse language. Created, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
FLEABAG involves the lifestyle events of the owner of a guinea pig themed restaurant in London, that is located near to a Northern Line station of the London Underground. After her friend BOO died, the restaurant is solely owned and operated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. FLEABAG has the best modern sensibilities, is an interrupter, a disturber of the status quo, plus she is an unconforming woman with profound contradictions.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge aimed for and provided the ultimate best-ever indelible storytelling, with complex and believable oversexed back-story, plus just so easily created outstanding TRUTH IN PERFORMANCE for her completely fictional character FLEABAG. Yes she has cleverly created this brand new and emotionally unfiltered BUT very typical archetype, that is already applicable for some modern women THE FEMALE STUD WITH ABSOLUTE ATTITUDE yes also unreliable and unsafe, but for every male that she fancies, she is just so much fun to be with.
FLEABAG had sold-out live performances in New York and London, this huge unfiltered comedy is about “some sort of woman living her sort of life”. FLEABAG is fully self-obsessed, and forever only thinking only about herself, excessively preoccupied with living her life and all the awful circumstances she has created. FLEABAG now has absolutely nothing to lose, and suddenly finds herself finally dealing with the self-created situations that could improve by doing something and/or by doing nothing. In her always natural state, she is wonderfully authentic about her constant huge sexual appetite, she steals from her sister and she deliberately tells lies to absolutely everyone including the Bank Manager. Equally comedy and drama, FLEABAG has created difficult emotional problems with her family + her boyfriend + her friendships, plus her failing restaurant leads to unexpected comedic consequences. Directed by Vicky Jones.
Award-winning one-woman comedy monologue play FLEABAG, had its first live performance during August 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe, in the Big Belly venue with 60 seats in Underbelly Cowgate, 66 Cowgate, Edinburgh. FLEABAG is the nickname of the central character, is also the endearing nickname actually used by her real life, real-world family. Edinburgh Fringe 2013 ran from Saturday 27th July 2013 until Tuesday 27th August 2013, and offered 2,871 shows performed by 24,107 artists, in 273 venues, all across Scotland’s capital city.
EXPECT – NSFW (Not Suitable For Work) with no nudity. plus very strong coarse language, frequent sexual references, highly sexualized situations/ content/ dialogue. Age recommendation 15+
Loved the FLEABAG (not performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) that was an important part of the SYDNEY FESTIVAL 22-27 January 2018 at Carriageworks. However so much better to enjoy FLEABAG by experiencing the original live theatre version, as deliciously performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. You now know exactly what you have to do. You must see this superb National Theatre Live on-stage performance (with an appreciative audience) filmed live of FLEABAG at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.
The cinematography techniques used for capturing the live-on-stage visual spectacle are just magnificent, as they are combined with the use of a full outside broadcast truck with full HD edit suite. These recorded live-to-screen streaming events are NOT the one camera pointing at the centre of the stage, from the front row of seats.
Typically a minimum of five HD video cameras are used, and of course usually including steady-cams and boom-mounted cameras. Must only be described as the best seat in the house, as you are apparently located on the stage within two metres of each and every actor. Because of the intimate closeness you achieve when experiencing each play with NTlive – their full theatrical production is delivered in a manner so very much better, than delivered to the audience seated in the theatre.
Since 2016, a huge fan of writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who is now starring in the role of the god-daughter, Helena Shaw (WOMBAT), in the brand-new “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (2023). Watched in 2016 the BBC FLEABAG Season One DVD, with six thirty-minute episodes. Watched in 2019 FLEABAG the Season Two DVD BBC/AMAZON PRIME, with six thirty-minute episodes.
Also available to grey-market import from Amazon France is the French DVD MOUCHE (EAN: 5053083189198) https://www.amazon.fr/ this DVD is the French Language version (with NO English Subtitles) of FLEABAG Season One, with a wonderful French cast and is called MOUCHE, which translates as FLY.
FLEABAG – 71st PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS aired on 23rd September 2019, English stars and English writers dominated the EMMY prime time television academy awards ceremony, completely monopolising the comedy awards category, and the television series FLEABAG picked up the Emmy four times, including –
WINNER – Outstanding Comedy Series
WINNER – Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
WINNER – Outstanding Direction for a Comedy Series
WINNER – Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
NTL 2023 FLEABAG – Production Photography by Matt Humphrey
2023 version has 85 minutes RUNNING TIME, including the 2 minute introduction, plus there is NO interval. 2019 version had 87 minutes RUNNING TIME, including the approx. 6 minute introduction, plus there is NO interval. Very Highly Recommended and rated 10/10 guinea pigs, FLEABAG has advertised rating of CTC, however the content is decidedly and repeatedly MA15+
TICKETS – https://sharmillfilms.com.au/national-theatre-live/fleabag-encore/
DENDY – https://newtown.dendy.com.au/movie/national-theatre-live-fleabag-encore
IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10702760/reference
IMDB-TRAILER – https://mubi.com/films/national-theatre-live-fleabag/trailer
YOUTUBE-TRAILER – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSAK3_SF9E&
MUBI – https://mubi.com/films/national-theatre-live-fleabag
ENCORE PRESENTATION – Watch the live performance direct from the stage in London, England. Recorded/ Filmed/ Streamed to cinemas all around the world.
On youtube you can watch the video of the 2019 PRE-SHOW FEATURE: “From Stage to Screen: Making National Theatre Live.”
VIDEO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3t1rj8g6yg&
Duration of 5 minutes and 25 seconds.
27th February 2020 – “FROM STAGE TO SCREEN | MAKING NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE – This is how National Theatre Live sends plays from the stage to over 3,500 cinema screens across the globe. Here are a few of the broadcast team’s secrets. National Theatre Live brings the best of British theatre to a cinema screen near you. Our state-of-the-art filming techniques, tailored to every play, give you the best seats in the house. Lose yourself in stories from every time, place and viewpoint imaginable. See world-class actors in the roles they were born to play. And witness every prickle of emotion – as it happens. Unedited, up close and in HD.”
Her unique life as fully described by FLEABAG – – –
“I have a horrible feeling I am a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can’t even call herself a feminist.”
“Either she’s got her period, or some serious shit has gone down”
[To her ex] “Do you still wank about me?”
“Either everyone feels like this a little bit and they are just not talking about it or I am completely f*cking alone.”
“My sister. She’s uptight and beautiful and probably anorexic, but clothes look awesome on her so . . . “
“I don’t have rye bread, but I have some normal bread you can puke up later?”
“I had to do a flash poo in Pret.”
“She is not an evil stepmother, she’s just a C*NT!”
“Sometimes I wish I didn’t even know that fucking existed”
“He’s one of those men who is explosively sexually inappropriate with everyone but who makes you feel bad if you take offence”
[When the doctor questions her about her family history] “Evil boobs everywhere”
“If you rid a women of her head and limbs you can’t really expect her to do anything other than roll around”
[On yesterday’s current affairs] “Sting wore white jeans and a puppy got stuck in a fan. Big day.”
“My bottom dropped ages ago. My farts used to be like “pah!”. Now they’re just sort of fighting their way out.”
Phoebe Waller-Bridge fully understands live theatre performance, and shows the world exactly what her words can achieve. FLEABAG quickly presents as a robust layered character, complex, interesting and problematic, including heavy back story with past emotional trauma. A female character to be appreciated. FLEABAG is drawn just so solid and fully multi-dimensional, touching and completely convincing, as the extra clever narcissistic rogue. FLEABAG is utterly convinced of her own narrative brilliance and the emotional core of her narrative (so far), and utter superiority to all those around her. FLEABAG firmly believes that “sometimes, yes always better late than never ever” is a reasonable paradigm providing a fully working opportunity to successfully recant her past sins when on the path to forgiveness.
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in Hammersmith, London, England on Sunday 14th July 1985. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a graduate of RADA. Her debut play FLEABAG, a one-woman show performed by the author herself, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013 before transferring to Soho Theatre in London. Phoebe Waller-Bridge won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the Critics’ Circle and Off-West End Awards for Most Promising Playwright and a Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. FLEABAG was also nominated for the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
Her theatre credits as an actor include, Mydidae (Soho Theatre/Trafalgar Studios); Hay Fever (Noël Coward Theatre); Tribes (Royal Court); Rope (Almeida Theatre); 2nd May 1997, Like A Fishbone and 66 Books at the Bush Theatre; Roaring Trade (Soho Theatre) and Crazy Love (Paines Plough).
TV shows include Henry, Bad Education, London Irish, The Café, The Night Watch and How Not To Live Your Life.
RADIO shows include Vincent Price and the Horror of the English Blood Beast, Burns and the Bankers (BBC Radio 4) and Money (BBC Radio 3).
Cinema Movie Film includes Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). She has since contributed to the screenplay of the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021), and has starred in the adventure film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).
As a creator, head writer, and star of the comedy series FLEABAG (2016–2019), she won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes and a British Academy Television Award. She received further Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for writing and producing the spy thriller series Killing Eve (2018–2022).
