FLEABAG – Phoebe Waller-Bridge (NTlive) National Theatre Live 2019 @ AUSTRALIAN CINEMAS FROM 11 OCT 2019

 

 
FLEABAG involves the events/lifestyle of the owner of a guinea pig themed restaurant in London, located on the Northern Line. After her friend BOO died, the restaurant is solely owned and operated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Pure British comedy delight, equally blunt and abrupt, scene after scene, repeatedly delivered with very strong coarse language. Created, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. 

Award-winning play FLEABAG, was first performed 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe. FLEABAG is the nickname of the central character, is also the endearing nickname actually used by her real life family. NSFW with very strong coarse language, frequent sexual references, highly sexualized situations, content and dialogue, but with no nudity. Age recommendation 15+

Sold-out performances in New York and London, this huge unfiltered comedy is about “some sort of woman living her sort of life”. FLEABAG is 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.

Loved the FLEABAG (not performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) that was an important part of the SYDNEY FESTIVAL 22-27 JAN 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 the National Theatre Live  on-stage performance  filmed live of FLEABAG (with an audience) at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge aimed for and provided the ultimate best-ever indelible storytelling, with complex and believable back-story, plus just so easily created outstanding TRUTH IN PERFORMANCE for her completely fictional character FLEABAG. Yes she has cleverly created a brand new and very typical archetype 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.

Since 2016, a huge fan of writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Watched the DVD in 2016 FLEABAG Season One BBC, with 6 thirty-minute episodes. Watched the DVD in 2019 FLEABAG Season Two BBC/AMAZON PRIME, with 6 thirty-minute episodes. Also available to buy on DVD (EAN: 5053083189198) the French Language version of Season One, with a wonderful French cast is called MOUCHE, which translates as FLY.

FLEABAG  2019  PRIME TIME EMMY  AWARDS 

At the 71st Emmy Awards, 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,

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

Sharmill Films  –  Running Time 87 minutes.

Special Event Screenings, in  Australian Cinemas from 11th October 2019.

Very Highly Recommended, and rated 10/10 guinea pigs, FLEABAG has advertised rating of CTC, however the content is decidedly and repeatedly MA15+

https://www.dendy.com.au/movies/nt-live-fleabag

http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/ntlout37-fleabag

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10702760/reference

YOUTUBE-VIDEO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LteCfU1IUFI&

 

 


 

 

 

 

Her life as 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.