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A peek into early-stage rehearsals of “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy” in London. The spoken and sung performance directed by Katie Mitchell and starring Renée Fleming and Ben Whishaw is written by poet Anne Carson with a score by composer Paul Clark.
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It is 1964. An office manager has hired one of his stenos to come in at night and type out his translation of Euripides’s “Helen,” but his obsession with the recently dead Marilyn Monroe kidnaps the translation.

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a spoken and sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson (“Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay;” “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse;” “Nox;” “Float”), intimately and powerfully staged by Katie Mitchell, whom the Guardian calls “Britain’s greatest living theater director,” in The Shed’s 500-seat Kenneth C. Griffin Theater. Actor Ben Whishaw (“Skyfall,” “The Crucible on Broadway,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “A Very English Scandal”) and soprano Renée Fleming (performances in international concert halls and opera houses; “Carousel” on Broadway; soundtracks for “he Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) star in an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—iconic beauties who lived millennia apart.

“The # MeToo movement has given us new ways to think about female icons like Helen or Marilyn Monroe, new ways to revolve the traditional male version of such events 360 degrees and find different, deeper sorrows there.” — Writer Anne Carson on the show’s main themes.
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