Fleabag (2018) Program

28 MAR — 22 APR

7 — 18 MAR

SEASON 2018

SEASON 2018

28 MAR – 22 APR BECKETT THEATRE

FILTHILY FUNNY

WRITTEN BY / Phoebe Waller-Bridge

STAGE MANAGER / Jamsin Hay

DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG / Vicky Jones

PRODUCERS / Francesca Moody for DryWrite David Luff for Soho Theatre

PERFORMER / Maddie Rice DESIGN / Holly Pigott

VOICEOVERS / Holly Pigott Adam Brace Charlotte McBrearty Teresa Waller-Bridge Vicky Jones Charlie Walker-Wise

LIGHTING DESIGN / Elliot Griggs #FLEABAG

SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION / Isobel Waller-Bridge

A DryWrite and Soho Theatre presentation in association with Malthouse Theatre.

Key image photography by Jonny Birch. Production Photography by Richard Davenport.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge WRITER

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A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Phoebe is a multi-awardwinning writer and actor.

With Vicky Jones, she is also co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of DryWrite Theatre Company. Her debut play Fleabag won a clutch of awards for writing and performance, including a 2014 Olivier Award nomination and a 2013 Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Theatre credits include: Fleabag (Stage Award for Best Solo Performance, Off West End Award for Best Female), The One (Soho Theatre) Mydidae (Soho Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Hay Fever (West End), Tribes (Royal Court), Rope (Almeida), 2nd May 1997 (Evening Standard Nomination, Best Newcomer), Like a Fishbone and 66 Books (Bush Theatre), Roaring Trade (Soho Theatre). TV includes: Fleabag (BBC3/Amazon), Broadchurch (ITV), Bad Education (BBC3), Glue (E4), Blandings II, The Night Watch (BBC), Henry, London Irish (Ch4), The Cafe (SKY TV). Film: Man Up, The Iron Lady, Albert Nobbs. On television Phoebe has recently been seen as Lulu in her critically acclaimed screen-writing debut Crashing for Channel 4.

Vicky Jones DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG Vicky Jones is co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of DryWrite with Phoebe WallerBridge. As a Director, Vicky’s credits include the multi award-winning production of Fleabag (Edinburgh Festival Fringe / Soho Theatre / UK and international tours), Mydidae

by Jack Thorne (Soho Theatre / Trafalgar Studios); The Tour Guide by James Graham, Separated by Sara Masters (iceandfire / UK tour) and The Freedom Of The City by Brian Friel (Finborough Theatre).

Her first play as a writer, The One, won the 2013 Verity Bargate Award before its world premiere at London’s Soho Theatre. Vicky is currently under commission as a writer for the National Theatre and for several TV companies including the BBC, Sid Gentle and Leopard Drama. She has co-written a one-off drama with Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras). She is also writing a new drama-comedy for Entertainment One.

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CAST & CREATIVE BIOS

Maddie Rice PERFORMER

Holly Pigott DESIGNER

Elliott Griggs LIGHTING DESIGNER

Maddie Rice’s theatre credits include: Fleabag (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 and UK tour); Villain (KingsHead/ Underbelly); Henry V (Michael Grandage Company/West End); All My Sons (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); News Revue (Edinburgh, Pleasance), zazU: A Fete Worse Than Death (Soho Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Principal Theatre); Twelfth Night (Young Shakespeare Company).

Television includes: Every Blank Ever (Comedy Central); I Live With Models (Comedy Central); Call The Midwife, Who Killed Laura Kitchens? (BBC). Maddie also writes and performs with comedy group zazU.

Holly Pigott is a London based designer who graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2011. She was a finalist in the Linbury Prize for Stage Design and also completed a year-long placement as a Trainee Designer with the Royal Shakespeare Company. As a set and costume designer she has worked for various venues and companies, including the Royal Opera House, Young Vic, Trafalgar Studios and Salisbury Playhouse. Design credits include: La Scala Di Seta (Linbury Studio, ROH); The Island (Young Vic/JMK Award); Klippies and East of Berlin (Southwark Playhouse); Skin A Cat (Vault Festival and Bunker Theatre); Now This Is Not The End, Handel Furioso, Façade, Eight Songs For A Mad King and The Sound Of A Voice (Arcola); Constellations (Theatre Municipal De Fontainebleau); Die Fledermaus (Kings Head Theatre/OperaUpClose); Elegy For A Lady and The Yalta Game (Salisbury Playhouse); Fleabag (Soho Theatre + UK Tour); Flashes (Soho Theatre); Tether (Underbelly and Omnibus Theatre); Below The Belt (Pleasance Courtyard and Omnibus Theatre); The Prophet (Gate Theatre); Sex With A Stranger (Trafalgar Studios); Lean (Tristan Bates Theatre); The Cage Birds (LAMDA’s Linbury Studio); Who’s Afraid Of Rachel Roberts (Torch Theatre); Hitchcock Blonde (Chapter Arts Centre).

Elliot trained at RADA. Recent work includes: Kiki’s Delivery Service (Southwark Playhouse); Sheppey, buckets (Orange Tree); Fool For Love (Found 111); Romeo and Juliet, Pigeon English (NYT/Ambassadors Theatre); My Eyes Went Dark (Traverse Theatre/Finborough Theatre); Don’t Wake the Damp, He Had Hairy Hands, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (Lowry, Salford/UK Tour); Educating Rita (Hull Truck); The Night Watch (Royal Exchange); The Box of Photographs (Polka Theatre); The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (Arcola Theatre/HighTide Festival); The Argument, Deluge (Hampstead Theatre); Yen (Royal Court/Royal Exchange); Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre); Pomona (National Theatre/ Royal Exchange/Orange Tree); Lampedusa (Soho Theatre/ HighTide Festival/Unity Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Belgrade Theatre Coventry); Benefit (Cardboard Citizens); Fleabag (Soho Theatre/ UK Tour); CommonWealth (Almeida Theatre); Defect (Perfect Pitch); Marching On Together (Old Red Lion); John Ferguson, The Soft of her Palm, And I and Silence (Finborough Theatre); Infanticide (Camden People’s Theatre); Belleville Rendez-Vous (Greenwich Theatre). Awards include: Best Lighting Designer (Off West End Awards 2014); New Talent in Entertainment Lighting (Association of Lighting Designers 2014); Francis Reid Award (Association of Lighting Designers 2011).

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Isobel Waller-Bridge COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Isobel’s theatre credits include: The Seven Acts of Mercy, Hecuba (RSC); Three Sisters (Lyric Theatre Belfast); The Philanderer (Orange Tree); Dutchman (Young Vic); The End of Longing (Playhouse Theatre, West End); The Damned United (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Kite (Soho Theatre); By the Bog of Cats (Abbey Theatre); The One That Got Away, Exit the King (Ustinov); The Hook (Royal & Derngate); Hope Place (Liverpool Everyman); King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre/BAM); Neville’s Island (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End); Billy Liar, Orlando, So Here We Are, (Manchester Royal Exchange); Uncle Vanya (St James Theatre); Incognito (Bush Theatre); Not the Worst Place (Sherman Cymru); Yellow Face (Royal National Theatre); Lampedusa, Fleabag, The Girl With the Iron Claws, Blink (Soho Theatre); the Ideal World season (Watford Palace Theatre); Forever House (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Sleuth (the Watermill); Mydidae (Traverse Theatre West End); Gruesome Playground Injuries (the Gate Theatre). Film, TV & radio composition includes: Fleabag (BBC); War & Peace (BBC/ TWC); James, Tracks & Physics (Dir. Claire Oakley); The Frozen Planet: Making Of (BBC); Gilead (Radio 3).

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Angela Kirsner & Dr Richard Kirsner, Simone Lourey, Jayne Lovelock & Dr Neal Harvey, Virginia Lovett, John McCallum, Victor McConvey, Ian McRae AO & Åsa Hasselgard-Rowe, Jan Owen AM, Craig Semple, Tom Smyth, Tim & Lynne Sherwood, Janice Taylor, Naum Tered, John Thomas, Phil & Heather Wilson, Anonymous (4) ERATO—MUSE OF LOVE—$250+ Simon Abrahams, Jennifer Bourke, Dr Rob Brown & Dr Lynne Millar, John & Alexandra Busselmaier, Siu Chan, Diane Clark, Fiona Clyne, Georgie Coleman, Carolyn Creswell, William Donaldson, Dr Bronwen Evans, Carolyn Floyd, Mary Garcia, Damyn Gordon, Joanne Griffiths, Peggy Hayton, Ted Hocking, Russell Hooper, Susan Humphries, Arechea Hounsell, Sarah Hunt, Ann Kemeny & Graham Johnson, Mira & Dr David Kolieb, Judith Maitland-Parr, Robert Peters, Ian Manning & Alice De Jonge, John Millard, Dr Kersti Nogeste, Linda Notley, Tony Oliver, Kaylene O’Neill, Anda Petrapsch, Gerard Powell, Dr Suzy Redston, Gavin Roach, Pauline Robert, Rae Rothfield, Jennifer Senior, Andrew Stocker, Evelyn Tadros, Chris Teh, Lee-Ann Walsh, Jan Watson, Jillian Wells OAM, Gary Westbrook, Gayl Morrow & Gib Wettenhall, Joanne Whyte, Barbara Yuncken

SEASON 2018

PRODUCING PARTNERS

DRYWRITE

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DryWrite is a multi-award-winning and Olivier nominated new-writing theatre company that challenges writers to work with specific briefs and goals to actively engage audiences with argument and action. Founded in 2007 DryWrite has since worked with over one hundred playwrights. They have produced original work for theatres including Soho Theatre, Roundhouse, York Theatre Royal, Hampstead Theatre, Trafalgar Studios and Latitude Festival and have toured throughout the UK and internationally. They are currently an associate company of Soho Theatre. DryWrite is made up of Co-Artistic Directors Vicky Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Producer Francesca Moody and Stage Manager Charlotte McBrearty.

SOHO THEATRE Soho Theatre is a major creator of new theatre, comedy and cabaret. Across three different spaces they curate the finest live performance they can discover, develop and nurture. Soho Theatre works with theatre makers and companies in a variety of ways, from full producing of new plays, to coproducing new work, working with associate artists and presenting the best new emerging theatre companies that they can find. They have numerous writers and theatre makers on attachment and under commission, young writers and comedy groups, and they read and see hundreds of shows a year—all in an effort to bring forward work that amazes, moves and inspires.

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BITES, BOOZE & BARRELS OF LAUGHS · ABORIGI-LOL · ALICE TOVEY · ANDREW MCCLELLAND · BETTY GRUMBLE · CARVIN H GOLDSTONE · DR JASON LEONG · DRAGON FRIENDS · EMMA J HAWKINS · FLEABAG · GARRY STARR · GERALDINE QUINN · LET’S GET PRACTICAL

· ROMEO IS NOT THE ONLY FRUIT · JUDE PERL · JULIA RORKE & ELYSIA HALL · LAWRENCE LEUNG · LOU WALL · MARCEL LUCONT · MICHAEL HING · RAMA NICHOLAS · SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE · SHOWKO · STEPH TISDELL

28 MARCH – 22 APRIL

SCENE & HEARD

Maddie Rice, who plays Fleabag, earned the role within the first three seconds of her audition.

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