December 3 at 7: Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag. Photo by Mark Humphrey.

ECU SCREENS finishes its fall season with Fleabag, the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the hit BBC/Netflix series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, on Tuesday, December 3rd at 7:00 PM. The screening will be in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center. The recorded live production is open to the public and tickets are $10 for community members. Tickets for ECU students are $5.

Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve), Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at “some sort of woman” living her “sort of life.” Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.

Playing to sold-out audiences in New York and London, Fleabag has been deemed a “legitimately hilarious show” by the New Yorker. Other reviews agree that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is “funny, vibrant and blunt as a hammerhead” (New York Magazine), and her storytelling is “quirky and original” (Guardian).

The runtime for Fleabag is 67 minutes. The BBFCA has given the production a rating of 15—higher than “PG-13,” but not an “R” rating—as the play contains strong language, sex references, references to sexual harassment.

NT Live is the National Theatre's groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas around the world. ECU SCREENS will open its spring season with William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Richard the Second on January 17th at 6:30 PM.

To learn more about ECU SCREENS, like the ECU SCREENS Facebook page. For more information about the National Theatre in Great Britain and the National Theatre Live screenings, visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/. Dr. Steve Benton, co-director of ECU SCREENS, may be contacted at (580) 559-5877 or sbenton@ecok.edu. 

November 5 at 2 pm: I'm Not Running

Siân Brooke and Alex Hassell in I'm Not Running. Photo by Mark Douet.

ECU SCREENS commemorates the electoral season with I’m Not Running on Tuesday, November 5th at 2:00 PM in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center. The recorded live production is open to the public and tickets are $10 for community members. ECU students receive free admission, sponsored by ECU SCREENS.

I’m Not Running is an explosive new political drama that explores personal choices and their public consequences, written by Academy Award-nominated writer David Hare. Siân Brooke (BBC Sherlock, BBC Doctor Foster) stars as Pauline Gibson, a junior doctor, who becomes the face of a campaign to save her local hospital. She’s thrust from angel of the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) to becoming an independent Member of Parliament. As media and public pressure mounts on Pauline to run for leadership of the Labour party, which has never had a woman as its leader, she faces an agonizing decision.

The Washington Post declared Hare “the premiere political dramatist writing in English.” Set in an alternative present of the United Kingdom, the play “hits political bullseyes” (Guardian) and is “a passionate, fluent production” (Independent).

The runtime is 2 hours and 47 minutes and includes an intermission, when free ice cream will be served to audience members. The production has a BBFC rating of 12A, the equivalent of PG-13 in the U.S., as the play contains strong language.

National Theatre Live is the National Theatre's groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas around the world.

ECU SCREENS will continue its season with Fleabag, the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve), on Tuesday, December 3rd at 7:00 PM.

To learn more about ECU SCREENS, like the ECU SCREENS Facebook page. For more information about the Royal National Theatre in Great Britain and the National Theatre Live screenings, visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/. Dr. Steve Benton, co-director of ECU SCREENS, may be contacted at (580) 559-5877 or sbenton@ecok.edu.