Bette Davis: Ain't for Sissies - Jessica Sherr's One Woman Reincarnation, Bumpy Going

Jessica Sherr is the writer and actor of this one woman, one act drama that is a surge of bravado although its one note powerhouse emote becomes worn out overtime.  Sherr packs a full Bette bio in sonic speed from her single mother upbringing to legendary, acad. award winning actress to an aging ingenue struggling for work during her companionless golden years.  Sherr rightly sheds light on several of her major films, fiascos, failed marriage and contentious battles with legendary directors and studio heads.  Davis' legal battle with Warner Bros to free her from an indentured contract she felt held her back was lost in court.  However, Davis' imperturbable attitude against being over directed and over managed marked her career and personal life as in the strong willed characters she played on screen & real life.  We're intimately brought into Bette's boudoir as she confides her life story, warts and all and permits us to be voyeurs on her personal phone calls.  Davis is at the apex of her movie career having received two Oscars and her radiant beauty is luminescent.  Sherr is a doppelgänger for Madonna and uses this to parody both Madonna vogueing as well as Davis posing for photogs.  The duplicity of Davis' friendship and acerbic, aside commentary were sharp and affecting.  Sherr played the performance BIG rather although all from Home.  The live screening was restricted to the bedroom but there was plenty of room to move about which would have shaken things up slightly.  Ms. Scherr's script writing was clever and performance earnest & energetic.  The show was loaded with high drama.  Betty talks ALL ABOUT EVErything: her lovers, husbands, mother, daughter, and of her beauty & career fading without any cracks showing in her carapace of strength.   Ms. Sherr assured us of Bette Davis dynamic drive like Edith Piaf - without bemoaning regrets.  I enjoyed the performance but felt bumped aside from scratching beneath Ms. Davis' tough outer hide.