Me & Jezebel
From: Tuesday, 14th April 2009
To: Saturday, 2 May 2009
Our Review: 
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for Me & Jezebel tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
| Tweet |
|
Synopsis
Me & Jezebel is an hilarious play based on the real experience of author Elizabeth Fuller, who in the summer of 1985, by pure chance, had the legendary screen actress Bette Davis come to stay at her 'somewhat dilapidated' New England cottage. What was supposed to be an overnight stay turned into an escapade which lasted 32 days, in which time Davis turned Fuller's home and life upside down.
Our Review:
21 April 2009
New End's Me & Jezebel is based on Elizabeth Fuller's stage adaptation of her 1992 book, about her 32 day encounter and experiences of having Bette Davis as an unexpected house guest in her 'somewhat dilapidated' New England cottage in the summer of 1985.
In this production, deftly directed by Barry Crocker, Katy Manning, as Elizabeth, gives a full throttled, vibrant, virtuoso performance, playing all the characters in her household; the wild and witty Bette; her put upon and neglected husband; her impressionable thumb-sucking four-year-old son, who by the end of the stay is developing into a mini Bette copycat; her infuriatingly OTT born again evangelist friend Grace and 'Ol' Ma', the grandmother who introduced her to Bette Davis films, which began the lifelong obsession that is the key to this 'brief encounter'.
Over 105 minutes we learn how a chance encounter led to Miss Davis inviting herself for an overnight stay which, due to a hotel strike in Manhattan, ...
Cast
Creative
Elizabeth Fuller (Author)
New End Theatre (Producer)
Barry Crocker (Director)
Information
|
