Best known for her role as IT geek Dobby in the sublime Peep Show, Isy Suttie brought her solo show Pearl and Dave back to Leicester on Friday night, and proved that there is much more to her than just being "the anxious, self-hating man's crumpet".
The sun-baked crowd at the Y Theatre were treated to an hour-long love story set in her home town of Matlock, interspersed with tales from her own love life. The story was as sweet and sad as it was funny, and the characters were lovingly realised by Suttie, who showcased her vocal talents - both in her impressions of the two title characters and the songs which documented their various internet-based correspondences.
The material from Suttie's own life further added to her onstage persona as generally sweet and quirky, although her final song about learning to drive showed her to be capable of anger and contempt like the rest of us (and her endearingly camp, raconteur-style warm-up act Chris Neill would have us believe that she's capable of some top quality bitchiness in private).
Suttie is no doubt a multi-talented performer, and we will certainly be seeing more of her in the near future, with various sitcom and musical projects on the horizon. (and yes, they're filming another series of Peep Show later this year - woohoo!!!) She has, for several years now, been compared to Victoria Wood, and with the right platform she is definitely talented and accessible enough to become that popular - the audience at the Y were certainly keen to see more of her at the end of the show, myself included!
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