When Phoebe Waller-Bridge was at drama college, she was told she was “emotionally blocked”. One exercise her class at Rada had been given was to lie on the floor and scream until they cried. She tried her best. “I couldn’t do it. Mainly because I found it hilarious.”Now a successful actor and playwright, Waller-Bridge, 30, has long been fascinated by the thin line between crying and laughing. Fleabag, her one-woman show about a sexually voracious anti-heroine, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013, made “you both laugh and choke at the same time”, according to the Guardian. It won her an Olivier award nomination and the Stage award for best solo performance. -
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