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Moonkid

 
JP Review by JP 4 Published: 17 Aug 2025 Hoots @ Potterrow Show Dates: 1 Aug 2025-25 Aug 2025

We are all the Moonkid. At least that’s how it feels watching them stand awkwardly at a party, alone with a red solo cup. Their glowing, round mask is remarkably expressive, and Lucy Ellis, the performer behind it, masters the physicality to punctuate these beautifully sombre moments.

Unmissable alt-comedy, delivered with a rare mix of earnestness and heart

Moonkid shifts between four characters: the titular Moonkid, a wilderness safety coach, a pretentious poet and a horny nun. Though wildly different in tone, Ellis connects them all through themes of loneliness, wonder and yearning.

My personal favourite is Moonkid – I could happily watch a five-hour show of the Moon going about their daily life – but the other characters bring plenty of comedic charm. The audience is often laughing at Ellis’s quick wit and inventiveness, while the vulnerability they carry through every role is undeniable.

This is unmissable alt-comedy, delivered with a rare mix of earnestness and heart. Make your way to Hoots at Potterrow for an authentic Fringe experience from a singularly skilled and utterly delightful performer.

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A lonely moon, a dirty nun, a pensive hunter with no gun… quiet little worlds come to dazzling life at the hands of these eccentrics as they fight to suppress their wildest – and most lovable – selves. Tender and ridiculous, Moonkid is a wandering journey through the forlorn, the pretentious, and the divine. American performer Lucy Ellis presents this assured and joyous solo debut, a crash course in yearning, ambition, loneliness and freedom.