LUCY & FRIENDS

lucy & friendS

“Shameless, unhinged and quite brilliant” ★★★★★ Skinny

Following cult shows Triple Threat and Post Popular, performance artist and comedian Lucy McCormick returns with Lucy & Friends. This show explores loneliness, labour and the desperate performance of connection. Presented as a stripped-back variety show, Lucy's first completely solo show calls on the audience to become her missing friends, stepping into roles she cannot fill alone.

As the show spirals through failed spectacle, emotional manipulation and increasingly chaotic attempts at community-building, Lucy exploits the language of cabaret to unravel ideas of narcissism, celebrity and the unhinged woman. A master of theatrical manipulation and crushing personal vulnerability, she leaves audiences needing a hug, a cry and an immediate shower.

  
    Creator and Performer 
  
  Lucy McCormick   
  
    Director 
  
  Ursula Martinez   
  
    Producer 
  
  Michael Kitchin    
  
    Production Manager 
  
  Herbe Walmsley  
    
    Lighting Designer 
  
  Sorcha Mae Stott-Strzala   
   
    Stage Manager  
  
  Stef Felton   

Creative Associates 
  
  Daniel Oliver & Claudia Palazzo  
  
    Image Design 
  
  Sorcha Mae Stott-Strzala & Jo Schneider    
  
Show Photos  
  
  Holly Revell & Jonny Ruff    
  
  Show Trailer  
  
  Claire Nolan      Commissioned by    The Yard Theatre

PAST PERFORMANCES

The Yard, London: 3 - 17 Dec 2022

The Pleasance, London (Edinburgh previews): 10 - 12 Jul 2023

Cambridge Junction (Edinburgh previews): 22 Jul 2023

Edinburgh Fringe Festival (The Pleasance): 1 - 23 Aug 2023

Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast: 12 Nov 2023

Soho Theatre, London: 27 Feb - 16 Mar 2024

Norfolk & Norwich Festival: 16 May 2024

Genderhouse Festival, Aarhus, Denmark: 29 May 2024

Brighton Dome, Brighton: 1 Nov 2024

Teatro Do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal: 14 - 15 Feb 2025

White Rock Theatre, Hastings: 24 Apr 2025

Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster, Germany: 13 - 14 Jun 2025

International Performing Arts Festival (IPAF), Copenhagen, Denmark: 20 - 21 Mar 2026

Latitude Festival, UK, 23 Jul 2026

PRESS

★★★★★ “All hail the queen of alt gay cabaret – shameless, unhinged, and quite brilliant” The Skinny

★★★★ “Magnificently anarchic one-woman cabaret revue” Time Out

★★★★★ “uncompromising, surreal, chaotic, touching and deeply, deeply hilarious” the Rec

★★★★★ “a high-octane experience….and a show not to be missed” Reviews Hub

★★★★★ “spellbindingly original maelstrom of laughter and emotions that turns itself inside out and lays everything bare” Lost In TheatreLand

★★★★ “a daring challenge to the norms of theatrical performance…Lucy McCormick challenges the limits of art” Broadway Baby

★★★★ “A wild ride” The Stage

★★★★ “a fearless, visceral performer, always in the here and now, compelling for her unpredictability” Chortle