The Flea

Cast: 1-2f 4-13m plus optional extras

Staging: Multiple locations (can be simply staged)

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 120 pages ISBN: 9781839042768Publication Date:
19 Oct 2023
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook, 120 pages ISBN: 9781788507165Publication Date:
19 Oct 2023
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
The Yard, London, 2023

The Flea

By James Fritz

Paperback £10.99£8.79

Ebook £10.99£8.79

Professional Production On Stage at:
Yard Theatre, London
From Mon 7 Oct 2024 to Sat 30 Nov 2024

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 Palace – and features a flea, a horse, a detective, a queen, a pimp, a god, and Charlie, the telegraph boy who knelt before the Crown.

This anarchic and affecting play was first performed at The Yard Theatre, London, in October 2023, directed by Artistic Director Jay Miller.

'We'll start with the flea, because that's as good a place as any...'

Press Quotes

'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'

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Cast: 1-2f 4-13m plus optional extras

Staging:Multiple locations (can be simply staged)

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,120 pages ISBN: 9781839042768Publication Date:
19 Oct 2023
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook,120 pages ISBN: 9781788507165Publication Date:
19 Oct 2023
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Professional Production On Stage at:
Yard Theatre, London Mon 7 Oct 2024 - Sat 30 Nov 2024

Also by James Fritz:

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Parliament Square
Four Minutes Twelve Seconds
The Fall
Skyscraper Lullaby
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Lava
Ross & Rachel
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