FLEABAG Coming to Marlowe Studio, Canterbury

THE MULTI-award-winning comedy play Fleabag comes to The Marlowe Studio, Canterbury, next month.

This one-woman show (starring Maddie Rice) lets us see the world through the eyes of twenty-something Fleabag as we follow her life, love, loss and heartbreak. She's angry, confrontational, cruel, forgetful, flippant, capricious, but undeniably honest.

Living in a contemporary city, Fleabag is dealing with the death of Boo, her best friend with whom she started a guinea-pig themed café. Following the break-up of her relationship with her boyfriend, she embarks on a quest to re-discover herself set over a frenzied 48 hours.

Since its first work-in-progress at Soho Theatre, London, the writer of Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has been announced as joint winner of the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright 2013, alongside Rory Kinnear; won the Stage Best Solo Performer 2013 as well as two Off West End Awards for Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance. Waller-Bridge has also been nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre.

Waller-Bridge is currently appearing on TV as barrister Sophie Lambourne in Broadchurch.

Fleabag has been awarded a special commendation from the coveted Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to recognise women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality in English-speaking theatre.

The production is directed by Vicky Jones, whose critically-acclaimed play The One won the 2013 Verity Bargate Award for best new play.

Waller-Bridge and Jones co-founded the new-writing company Drywrite in 2007, and have since worked with more than 100 playwrights and produced original work for many theatres, including the Roundhouse, Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios.

Fleabag, recommended for those aged 16 and over, is brought to The Marlowe Studio by Drywrite and Soho Theatre. It is at 8pm from Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 March. Tickets, priced £12 (concessions available; booking fee applies) are from the Box Office on 01227 787787 or marlowetheatre.com.