Told to the murmur of Martin Carrillo’s piano music and a television stuck ominously on afternoon reruns — an element that underscores the vaguely sickening mood — it’s a devastating story.
— Judith Lewis for the LA Weekly
In 2004 Martin Carrillo was contacted by collaborator Joe Foster about designing a new play by Jacqueline Wright. The offer came with an apology. “You’ll understand when you read it.” In reality there was nothing for which to apologize. Eat me is Jacqueline Wright at her most raw and daring. It is the microcosm of her macrocosmic work. The show is explicit, and at times almost pornographic, but as Judith Lewis wrote for the LA Weekly “So much of Eat Me goes against prevailing wisdom about violence, its perpetrators and victims that it’s destined to be labeled controversial and anger some sensitive viewers. And yet so much of it makes some sort of brave and uncompromising sense that it’s impossible to dismiss the play as either exploitation or antifeminist backlash.”
so much of it makes some sort of brave and uncompromising sense
— Judith Lewis
Eat me was directed by Chris Fields, and starred Jacqueline Wright, David Ojalvo, and Tony Forkush.
Read Judith Lewis’s thoughtful review.
