Fleabag: The Original Play (NHB Modern Plays)

A new edition of the smash hit one-woman show, now a major BBC television series, available to watch on Amazon in the U.S.The show has received comparisons to Girls, Sex and the City, and the deep melancholy of BoJack Horseman.The television show has received rave reviews, including one from Emily Nussbaum in The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/fleabag-an-original-bad-girl-comedy)Waller-Bridge has also recently been interviewed by Harper's Bazaar (http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/news/a17977/phoebe-waller-bridge-fleabag-interview/) and W Magazine (http://www.wmagazine.com/story/phoebe-waller-bridge-fleabag-amazon-interview)This edition features an introduction by the author.The original play was an Edinburgh Fringe First winner and sold out smash at the Soho Theatre in London in 2013.Waller-Bridge also won 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. She received a Special Commendation for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Brilliant monologue opportunities for young women, hysterically funny, heartbreaking and truthful, the Talking Heads (Alan Bennett) for the current generation.