The tour, a double bill of two 60-minute sets, back-to-back nightly, will include new material for 2022.
The first half, Snowflake, has been heavily rewritten over the past two years, looking at how the covid-Brexit era has impacted on the culture war declared on ‘lovely woke snowflakes’.
The second half, Tornado, questions Lee’s position in the comedy marketplace after Netflix mistakenly listed his show as “reports of sharks falling from the skies are on the rise again. Nobody on the Eastern Seaboard is safe.”
Stewart Lee began doing stand-up in 1988 at the age of 20 and won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 1990. Live shows over the last decade have been Carpet Remnant World (2011), Much A Stew About Nothing (2013), Room With A Stew (2015) and Content Provider (2016 – 2018, also a BBC Special). He made four series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (BBC) which won two British Comedy Awards in 2011 and a BAFTA in 2012.
Stewart is also a newspaper columnist, an occasional music journalist and radio presenter, and author of several books published by Faber. His recent collaboration with Asian Dub Foundation, Comin’ Over Here, debuted at No.1 on the new official sales chart when the UK left the EU, and King Rocker, his documentary about The Nightingales made with Brass Eye director Michael Cummings, recently appeared at the Sheffield Documentary Festival to great acclaim.
Oxford Playhouse’s Spring 2022 Season is packed with plenty more comic talent including an improvisational experience with Paul Merton’s Impro Chums.
The Dame of comedy, Pam Ayres, will be gracing the Playhouse with an evening of poems and stories from her many books; Michael McIntyre brings a brand new work in progress show; Reginald D Hunter talks climate change, mass unemployment and the rise of global fascism in the searingly honest and brutally funny Bombe Shuffleur; Lost Voice Guy (Lee Ridley) is back out on the road to put a smile on people’s faces as he pokes fun at his life living as a disabled person in a post-apocalyptic world; and Ed Gamble presents his new show Electric.
Stewart Lee: Snowflake/Tornado runs at the Playhouse from Mon 17 to Sat 22 Jan 2022. Tickets are priced at £26.50 and are available from the Box Office on 01865 305305 or book online at www.oxfordplayhouse.com
