Review: Need a laugh? Stream the stage version of 'Fleabag' for loads of conspiratorial fun
When Phoebe Waller-Bridge was making “Killing Eve,” the spy thriller she created for BBC America, she kept a draft email on her phone.
Waller-Bridge hit the niche sweet spot with her title character, a glamorous mess whose quick-wittedness takes in everything, including a glancing view at her own rather large blind spots. Restless when in a relationship, she becomes manic when alone, searching relentlessly for sexual comfort to ease the terror of her own guilt, loneliness and helpless fury at the unfairness of the world.
Her lankiness sprawled in a chair, Waller-Bridge makes full use of her body to illustrate the many moods of her character. Stretching her legs as though they were fishing poles trying to reel in a good-size catch, she mines Fleabag’s seductiveness for the gold of awkward comedy. The play walks us through the character’s coping routine. As though reviewing an extravagant grocery list, Fleabag reports on masturbating to porn after some mental foreplay with Zac Efron and, picking up a stranger on the Tube with a face she likens to a rodent‘s and sexting from a bathroom stall. There are no other performers on stage, but recorded voices give the actress all she needs to reveal the desperation and depravity of a woman on the lam from her own grief.
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