Award-winning comic and actor Lucy Pearman brings her critically acclaimed new present Lunartic to Soho Theatre, London this autumn, following a sell-out run on the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 that delighted critics and audiences alike.
In Lunartic, the Moon is placing on a present. However, because the Solar retains reminding her, the Moon won’t ever be a star – and with out him, she’d be invisible altogether. By means of her trademark mix of surreal character comedy, joyful viewers participation and prop-fuelled silliness, Pearman takes us right into a huge-hearted story about loneliness, large desires, and desirous to be seen. Because the Solar threatens to change off the sunshine altogether with a complete eclipse, the Moon faces the darkish – and the viewers is invited to hitch her in a splendidly daft celestial journey.
Lucy Pearman is a comic, actor and author who wrote and starred in BBC Three’s Please Assist, which was nominated for a BAFTA following its launch. She was nominated for Greatest Newcomer on the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2017 for her debut full-hour present Maid of Cabbage. The present went on to have two sell-out runs at Soho Theatre. Her 2018 present Fruit Loop additionally transferred to Soho Theatre for 2 sold-out runs and obtained robust vital acclaim. In 2019 she returned with Baggage, which offered out its Edinburgh Fringe run and transferred to Soho Theatre later that 12 months. Her most up-to-date Fringe present, Lunartic (2025), was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comedian Originality and nominated for Greatest Selection Present on the Leicester Comedy Pageant Awards.
Her earlier work contains her first solo present Crack in Progress (2016) and the musical comedy Promenade Kween (2017), which was a five-star hit on the Edinburgh Fringe and obtained reward for its originality and vitality.
On tv she has performed lead roles in BBC Two’s The Thoughts of Herbert Clunkerdunk and Mister Winner. She additionally starred in Dave’s Purple Dwarf feature-length particular – one of many channel’s highest rated programmes – and appeared on Channel 4’s Harry Hill’s Membership Nite.
Lucy’s stage and display screen work has been extensively recognised. Along with her Edinburgh Comedy Award Greatest Newcomer nomination, she has been nominated twice on the Leicester Comedy Pageant Awards (Greatest Present, 2019; Greatest Selection Present, 2025). Please Assist was nominated for a BAFTA, and he or she was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comedian Originality in 2025.
Tickets for Lucy Pearman: Lunartic can be found right here. The present runs from Monday September 29 – Saturday October 4 2025 at Soho Theatre – Downstairs, Dean St, London.
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