Lucy Pearman: Fruit Loop (United Agents / Heroes)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“You’re too early. Fuck off!”
Lucy Pearman is wonderfully, uproariously bonkers. Her show begins with a crude home made worm, draped over a stage curtain, and its disembodied voice urging an audience member to stick his hand inside her. That’s a fairly surreal start, but it gets weirder from hereon in: there is the little Early Bird, for example, who we are licensed to scream ‘fuck off’ at every time it makes an appearance. Or the anthropomorphised bunch of grapes with a wobbly moustache. The performance unravels as a sweet worm based narrative and there is something liberating about the silly audience interaction, which everyone is immediately on board with. An instantly lovable conjurer of clownish chaos, Lucy Pearman may well have genius in her.
Monkey Barrel @ Monkey Barrel 2 - Edinburgh Festival
Being performed again at Soho Theatre 26th Nov - 1st Dec
Book here: https://sohotheatre.com/shows/lucy-pearman-fruit-loop/