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Isy Suttie follows her dreams
By
Bruce Dessau
5 Aug 2008
The Fringe is the place where comedians go for their big TV break but a number of this year's acts have already had their breaks.
Isy Suttie recently caused a stir as Dobby, David Mitchell's love interest in C4's brilliant Peep Show. If she was quirkily compelling there, she is totally off the quirkometer here, pulling faces, singing ridiculous jazz and inviting the audience into her strange little gloriously upbeat world, where her philosophy is "follow your dreams".
The theme is childhood ambitions. Suttie wanted to be a soldier, a princess or an albino - ideally all three - but never made it. Instead she has become a wonderfully whimsical musical comedian, an absurdist Victoria Wood. Her eccentric characters, including Amy Winehouse's fictional cousin Yvonne, are sometimes too subtle, yet buying into them is well worth the investment.
Until 25 August
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
