SUSANTIERNEY World Premier Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015 in the Shepard Theatre at the Complex is an evening of riveting storytelling.
Susan winds her way through a jagged past, falling. Calmly, she tells a picaresque tale of an artist’s life. Struggling to conquer New York, being emotionally shattered by her mentor’s suicide, being physically wrecked in a sky-diving accident, drifting downtown and downscale from ballerina to lap dancer, living with the wrong lovers, at last choking on smoke while people fall from the nearby Twin Towers. And finding a quiet epiphany.
With her pale skin and close-cropped pale hair, Tierney almost disappears into the background, then leaps forward to reconnect with sudden intensity. Her humor, wryly accepting circumstances (and her own lapses of judgment), holds us engaged. Her frank courage keeps us a little in awe. At the end, we realize we’ve been mesmerized by a master storyteller.
