Pearl and Dave a real gem at Warwick Arts Centre

Long time musical stand up Isy Suttie’s show, Pearl and Dave, takes the stage on Sunday May 13.

A sell-out at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, the show follows the two protagonists as they live out their romantic dreams in cyberspace. Starting with chaste Facebook messages, before progressing to Skype calls, quiet accountant Dave sets about wooing well-spoken Pearl who he first met at Skegness Butlins.

Best known for playing Dobby in Peep Show, Isy plays all the characters in this tale dripping with hopes, heartbreak and emoticons.

Set to her own original music, the show is interspersed with vignettes from Isy’s own love life as she mirrors her two subjects in her quest for ‘The One’.

Isy’s musical comedy often gets compared to Victoria Wood and John Hegley but she very much carves her own furrow of funny, leftfield, sometimes haunting and moving songs.

Pearl and Dave, one of four Edinburgh shows chosen to be aired on BBC Radio 4 in January of this year, is Isy’s third live solo show after sell-outs Love Lost in the British Retail Industry (2007) and The Suttie Show (2008).

Last year, she completed a 45-date UK tour of Love Lost in the British Retail Industry, which was one of the two solo UK comedy shows selected for Sydney Arts Festival 2010, alongside Tim Key’s Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Slutcracker.

Isy was also nominated for Breakthrough Artist at the 2011 British Comedy Awards, two years after being nominated for Newcomer.

Tickets cost £12 and are available online.