BAFTA Award-winner Miriam Margolyes transforms into legendary Hollywood agent Sue Mengers in the wickedly hilarious one-woman show, I'll Eat You Last, directed by Dean Bryant. Promising a night full of tinseltown tattle, this theatrical delight by renowned playwright John Logan opens on Thursday 6 November 2014 at Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio.
Miriam Margolyes' distinguished acting career spans stage, film and television, and in 2001 she received an OBE for Services to Drama. Her one-woman show, Dickens' Women, successfully toured the world to great acclaim and her many theatre credits include Gertrude Stein and a Companion and Wicked (London and Broadway). She last appeared for MTC in Realism (2009) and Blithe Spirit (2003), and is well known to audiences as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films as well as for her roles in the BBC series Blackadder, where she first came to prominence. When Miriam Margolyes steps on stage as the outrageous showbiz legend Sue Mengers in I'll Eat You Last, you'll be wondering why you've never heard of this Hollywood superagent. Afterwards, you'll wonder if you could ever forget her. Welcome to the glamorous home of talent agent Sue Mengers. It is 1981 and if an actor isn't represented by the formidable Sue, they're a nobody. She has the entire Hollywood A-list on her books: Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Cher - you name it. As she waits for a call from Streisand, names will be dropped, secrets divulged, and dirt dished as this powerful and determined ball of chutzpah reveals how she went from plain, plump Jewish immigrant to a film industry powerbroker. It was a fabulous career - while it lasted.Videos