Stewart Lee is heading out on a new tour. In this brand new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of North America who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee's unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up?
Stewart Lee ("the world's greatest living stand-up comedian" The Times), is in danger of being left behind. He's approaching sixty with debilitating health conditions, his TV profile has diminished, and his once BAFTA award-winning style of stand-up seems obsolete in the face of a wave of callous Netflix-endorsed comedy of anger, monetising the denigration of minorities for millions of dollars. But can Lee unleash his inner Man-Wulf to position himself alongside comedy legends like Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais and Jordan Peterson at the forefront of side-splitting stadium- stuffing shit-posting?
Opening at Leicester Square Theatre in December 2024 the new show will tour to UK cities throughout 2025 – see schedule below and stewartlee.co.uk. Many more dates to be added.
Stewart’s 2019 touring show Snowflake/Tornado, which was originally broadcast as a BBC Special in Autumn 2023 is now available to buy or rent “on demand” from www.mediagarageproductions.com.
Stewart Lee began stand-up in 1988 at the age of 20 and won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 1990. In 2001 he co-wrote the libretto for Richard Thomas’s Jerry Springer, The Opera, which went on to win four Olivier Awards. His most recent live shows have been Carpet Remnant World (2011), Much A Stew About Nothing (2013), Room with a Stew (2015), Content Provider (2016), Snowflake/Tornado (2019) and Basic Lee (2022- 2024). He made four series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle for the BBC which won Best Male TV Comic and Best Comedy Entertainment Performance at the British Comedy Awards in 2011 and a BAFTA in 2012. In 2014 he began performing Indeterminacy by John Cage and in 2019, made King Rocker (with Michael Cummings) a rockumentary about The Nightingales. In 2023 he re-wrote the Porter scene for an RSC production of Macbeth directed by Wils Wilson. Stewart is also a newspaper columnist and music journalist and has published several books with Faber.
Cartoon artwork by Mark Reynolds.
SUN 19, 7.30PM, SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower Theatre, 02380 711811, mayflower.org.uk
FRI 24-SUN 26, 7.30PM, BIRMINGHAM, Symphony Hall, 0121 780 3333, bmusic.co.uk
FEB
MON 3-SAT 8, 7.30PM (FRI 8PM), OXFORD, Playhouse, 01865 305305, oxfordplayhouse.com
MON 10, 7.30PM, CANTERBURY, The Marlowe Theatre, 01227 787787, marlowetheatre.com
TUE 18-SAT 22, 7.30PM, SALFORD, The Lowry, 0161 876 2000, thelowry.com
APRIL
TUE 1 & WED 2, 7.30PM, SHEFFIELD, Lyceum Theatre, 0114 249 6000, sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
MAY
TUE 6 & WED 7, 7.30PM, LIVERPOOL, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 0151 709 3789, liverpoolphil.com
THU 8-SAT 10, LEEDS, Playhouse, 0113 213 7700, leedsplayhouse.org.uk
MORE DATES TO BE ADDED see www.stewartlee.co.uk for schedule
