The Flea
$36.98
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2023
Summary
‘We’ll start with the flea, because that’s as good a place as any…’
July 1889, London. A flea bites a rat. A rat spooks a horse. A horse kicks a man. As the chain reaction continues, a boy and his mother find themselves swept up in a national scandal that will reshape both their lives – and the country.
James Fritz’s play The Flea is a retelling of the Cleveland Street Scandal that shook England – from the streets of Bermondsey to the halls of Buckingham Pala…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839042768 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839042761 |
| Author: | James Fritz |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Gloriously anarchic… a coked-up joyride of a satire which not so much pokes fun at, but hacks and slashes hierarchical English society to shreds… a bona fide blast’
* Broadway World *‘Exuberant in its ambition… The story provides rich pickings for James Fritz, one the UK’s most interesting playwrights’
* Guardian *‘Wildly imaginative… a gleeful, dressing-up box takedown of the hypocrisies and privileges of the wealthy… a wildly entertaining tale that also lands some serious points about institutional corruption, abuse and impossible choices’
* The Stage *‘Absurdly funny… a unique piece of satirical Queer Victoriana’
* Theatre Weekly *‘A rollicking script… rambunctiously good… has an originality and rawness that compels… ambitious, imaginative, and unashamedly unfettered by convention’
* WhatsOnStage *‘Mischievous, searching, gloriously surreal… Fritz [is] certainly one the most boundary-pushing playwrights of today… a riotous, quirky ride’
* Time Out *‘A triumph… delivers everything you would expect from a period drama, and a lot of absurd and stylish things that you wouldn’t… Sensitively conceived but hilarious, The Flea offers its audience a good laugh and a punch to the stomach’
* Reviews Hub *James Fritz
James Fritz is a playwright whose work includes: The Flea (Yard Theatre, London, 2023); Lava (Nottingham Playhouse/Fifth Word, 2018; revived 2022); Parliament Square (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, and Bush Theatre, London, 2017); Start Swimming (Young Vic Taking Part, Edinburgh Fringe, 2017); The Fall (National Youth Theatre at the Finborough Theatre, London, 2016); Comment is Free (Old Vic New Voices, 2015; BBC Radio 4, 2016; winner of the Imison and Tinniswood Awards for audio drama, 2017); Ross & Rachel (MOTOR at Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2015; 59E59 Theaters, New York); Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Hampstead Theatre, 2014; Most Promising Playwright, Critics’ Circle Awards) and Lines (Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2011).
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