I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers
The Edge Theatre: 7/ 15 - 7/31
Emma Messenger( Photo Credit: Rachel Graham/RDG Photography
"If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit
by me.”
Director
Josh Hartwell has cast this property well by starring Emma Messenger as Sue
Mengers.
Messenger portrays the renowned Hollywood agent,
Sue Mengers in John Logan’s one-person show, “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with
Sue Mengers,” now on view at The Edge Theater.
As the agent
of such stars as Barbra Streisand, Messenger commands the stage, holding court
for us “poor lambs from Segundo or some such place.”
From time
to time, enthroned upon her couch, she calls disdainfully upon one of the
audience members to hand her a dish or bring her a decanter of wine.
Messenger is delicious at delivering that “peel me a grape” brand of
sarcasm one remembers from those Mae West films of the thirties.
It’s
certain that Messenger relishes the dirt dishing about such motion picture
stars as Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway and Jane Fonda. Her undoing of the previously
unblemished reputation of Steve McQueen with regard to his relationship with Ali
McGraw is fascinating.
The sarcasm is corrosive and the lampooning
caustic. John Logan’s script allows us to really get intimate with this once timid,
“fat little eight-year-old Jewess”, who left Hitler’s Germany to become a huge
success as an Agent in the Hollywood of the seventies and eighties.
Mengers’ abrasive
criticism of the movie stars whose careers she built is both funny and scathingly
honest. That all of these artists, whose careers she helped forge, left her one
by one, saddens one. The profanity and dissing of same feels like a buffer for
her bruised ego and emotions. She considered them all to be family.
A one-woman show starring CTG Henry Award winner
Emma Messenger
July 15 – August 6, 2016
Fridays, Saturdays and Monday, July 25 at 8
p.m.; Sundays at 6 p.m. (closing Sunday, July 31 at 2 p.m.).
75 minutes / No Intermission
For tickets please call
303-232-0363 or go online at theedgetheater.com
The Edge Theater is located
at 1560 Teller Street in Lakewood, CO.
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