The Nostalgic End of <em>Fleabag</em>
“I am obsessed with audiences,” writes Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the introduction to the playtext of Fleabag. “How do you make an audience laugh in one moment, then feel something completely and profoundly different in the next?”
The actor and writer has had six years to find out. began as her one-woman play at the 2013 , before spawning two seasons of a BBC television show, which now streams on Amazon Prime. Millions of viewers have fallen for the titular character—she is never referred to by her real name—in a story that dwelled on grief, sex, and terrible life decisions. Now, the original play has just started a sold-out run at the 760-seat Wyndham’s Theatre’s final outing: Waller-Bridge has declared the television series dead, and says she will not perform the one-woman show again.
