Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. Fleabagpremiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for the first of several successful runs, followed by UK and international tours, a sold-out run in New York and a West End run in 2019. Her coat falls open. She only has her bra on underneath. She pulls out the little sculpture of the woman with no arms. It sits on her lap. Two women. One real. One not. Both with their innate femininity out.”

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When you combine two of those four things into one book, it is a goddamn gift the likes of which come once in a generation. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for several successful runs, followed by a UK tour. The theatre show was then adapted into the popular series in 2016, for which Waller-Bridge received a BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance after the TV series was a hit with both critics and the public alike. The third thing is books, and, in case you are somehow, mercifully new here, I don't like those too often either. It’s been announced that this will be the last time Waller-Bridge will perform the part on stage. When can I read it?Dashing the hopes of fans all over the nation, actress Sian Clifford – who plays Claire, Fleabag’s uptight sister – told BBC Breakfast in April that the story will finish at the end of the second series as “it is complete.” Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA winning series.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed, utterly unique series Fleabagtook the world by storm with its piercing dialogue, ruthlessly dry wit, and deeply human drama. In Fleabag: The Scriptures,Waller-Bridge brings together for the first time the filming scripts of the first and second seasons, complete with the original stage directions as well as exclusive commentary on her creative process and the making of the series. Now recognized as one of today’s most essential voices, she delivers powerful insights into her now-iconic protagonist: the hilarious, emotionally damaged, sexually unapologetic woman who can make viewers laugh, cry, and cringe in a single scene.In 2016, Fleabagwas turned into a wildly successful and "utterly riveting" ( The Guardian) BBC television series, with a second series following in 2019. Go deeper into the groundbreaking, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series with this must-have collection—“a completist’s dream of a book, including the show’s full scripts and Waller-Bridge’s commentary” ( Vogue). I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.' Fortunately, the fourth thing is a small number of witty, dark-humor British TV shows, most of which are created / written by / starring / formulated from the angelic and god like brain of Phoebe Waller-Bridge.