I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers | |
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Written by | John Logan |
Characters | Sue Mengers |
Date premiered | 24 April 2013 |
Place premiered | Booth Theatre, New York |
Original language | English |
Subject | Sue Mengers Hollywood |
Genre | biographical |
I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers is a 2013 American one-act play by John Logan, about the talent agent Sue Mengers. [1] [2]
The debut 2013 American production starred Bette Midler. [3] The play, which cost $2.4 million to produce, was a hit. [4]
The Australian premiere of the play was a new Melbourne Theatre Company production in October 2014, starring Miriam Margolyes as Mengers and directed by Dean Bryant. [5]
In the play, Mengers claims that Jane Fonda turned down the role of Evelyn in the 1974 film Chinatown , which ended up being a defining role for Faye Dunaway. In 2013, Fonda responded by saying that director Roman Polanski had never really offered her the part, and that it was written for Dunaway. [6]