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A First for Ben Whishaw in “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy” | IN THE WORKS | THE SHED

Ben Whishaw stars alongside Renée Fleming in “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy,” a spoken and sung performance piece written by Anne Carson and directed by Katie Mitchell. Whishaw caught up with us during a rehearsal break in London. _______________ To learn more about “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy,” visit http://bit.ly/2GgZw3Q. _______________ 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 “The 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. _______________ FOLLOW Facebook:   / theshedny   Instagram:   / theshedny   Twitter:   / theshedny