Once based in a rundown boozer, DryWrite nights encouraged risk and giddy game-playing – their spirit is felt in Killing Eve and across British theatre today
When Phoebe Waller-Bridge performed her script Fleabag at the Edinburgh fringe in 2013, it landed like a bolt from the bluest of minds. But Waller-Bridge, who is taking the play into the West End for her final run in the role, had spent years honing her craft. Fleabag was the fruit of a long-running short-play night she established in 2007 with her writing partner Vicky Jones. It shared the name of the theatre company, DryWrite, which they still co-run.
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