Concrete Playground

31-year-old comedian and musician Isy Suttie is probably best known for playing the overtly sexual I.T. misfit, Dobby, on the UK sitcom Peepshow. (If you haven’t seen it already I urge you to check it out – it’s brilliant)

She’s coming down to Sydney as part of Sydney Festival to bring us her one woman show Love Lost in the British Retail Industry.  It’s a comedic exploration into working class British life. Suttie plays a myriad of different characters who’s stories all intersect at a supermarket. She also plays songs. She’s only been writing shows for a few years and she’s already been compared to old-school British geniuses such as Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood.

With all that musical talent, intellectual working class angst and dry British wit I imagine Suttie's show will be like a theatrical version of Pulp's Common People. Remember when Jarvis rode around in a giant shopping trolley mocking the British class struggle with all that Cockney anger and retro camp? Well hopefully this will be just like that, but all contained within a one-woman tour-de-force. Imagine!