The week in theatre Fleabag; Appropriate; As You Like It – review
almost 6 years in The guardian
Wyndham’s; Donmar Warehouse, London; Queen’s theatre, HornchurchPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag returns in singularly brilliant fashion. Plus, more electrifying drama from Branden Jacob-Jenkins
“Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny?” It’s only 12 years since Christopher Hitchens winsomely, question-beggingly posed the query in Vanity Fair. Then it seemed daft. Now it seems antique. In part because of the glory that is Fleabag.
In unleashing her stories six years ago on the stage at the Edinburgh fringe, Phoebe Waller-Bridge created a person – unvictimised and vulnerable, comic and desperate, richly observant and blindly batting around – who remade the idea of the female voice, and showed comedy as multifaceted expression. Now, after telly triumph, she is back on stage, and it’s hard to imagine a more brilliantly condensed hour-and-a-bit. Unadulterated bliss. A consummation devoutly to be wished... Continue reading...
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