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Carson, Anne
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy: A Version of Euripides’ Helen. Oberon Modern Plays London: Oberon Books, 2019.
ISBN: 978-1-78682-759-3
Notes from Source: “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.” — Provided by publisher.
Further Notes:
Carson, Anne. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy: A Version of Euripides’s Helen. A New Directions Paperbook 1467. New York: New Directions Books, 2020.
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Commissioned by The Shed, New York
Alex Poots, Artistic Director and CEO
World premiere April 9, 2019
The Kenneth C. Griffin Theater
The films “Clash by Night” and “The Seven Year Itch” may also be found in this work.
Subject Tags: Achilles, Aristotle, Bailey, Pearl, Beauty, Capote, Truman (1924-1984), Drama, Helen of Troy, Hermione, Homer, Hughes, Ted, Jack the Ripper, Lacan, Jacques, Lang, Fritz, Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962), Persephone, Power, War
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