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Playwright Luke Yankee / Marilyn, Mom & Me Play / STAGE EXPLORATIONS Theatre & Art Podcast

https://marilynmomandme.com/ STAGE EXPLORATIONS Host Buell Brown talks with Playwright Luke Yankee about the Playwrights new play Marilyn, Mom & Me. https://marilynmomandme.com/ Marilyn, Mom & Me Play Description: Attempting to better understand his complicated relationship with his mother, Playwright Luke Yankee, son of award-winning actress Eileen Heckart, delves into her friendship with Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe. Eileen Heckart, the no-nonsense Broadway actress, and Marilyn Monroe, the glamorous Hollywood legend, developed an enduring bond during the filming of Bus Stop — perhaps the most important film of Monroe’s career. Forty-five years later, Yankee tries to unravel his mother’s relationship with Monroe in order to better understand his own path with this highly critical, yet loving woman. If Luke can get his mom to open up about Monroe, maybe it will make her a more sympathetic mother — or at least help him to connect with her on another level. https://yankeehillproductions.com Additional Information about Playwright Luke Yankee Marilyn, Mom & Me Play: In 1956, when Marilyn Monroe was cast as the lead in the film Bus Stop, she was the biggest star in the world. She had taken the previous year off to study with Lee Strasberg and had become the poster child for “method” acting. The tough, no-nonsense, Broadway character actress Eileen Heckart was cast as her best friend in the movie. As a part of her newly discovered style of acting, Marilyn was determined to make Heckart her best friend – both on-screen and off. Reluctantly, Heckart went along with it for the sake of the film and found herself emotionally entrenched in the life of Marilyn Monroe. For all outward appearances, Marilyn had it all. And yet, more than anything, she yearned to have what Heckart took for granted: a stable marriage, two kids and a respected Broadway career. Forty-five years later, Heckart’s middle-aged gay son, Luke, is trying to unravel his mother’s relationship with Monroe in order to better understand his own path with this highly critical, caustic, yet loving woman. Why did his mother burst into tears every time someone mentioned Marilyn’s name? Clearly, she’d had a deep impact on Heckart. If Luke could get his Mom to open up about Monroe, maybe it would make her a more sympathetic mother – or at least help him to connect with her on another level. This deeply personal comic drama explores a side of Marilyn Monroe no one has ever seen before by focusing on her craft as an actress as well as her friendship with another woman. It also shows a caring, yet highly complex mother/son relationship explored through the lens of one of the greatest film stars the world has ever known. The play utilizes the chaotic world of movie-making in 1950’s Hollywood to uncover universal truths about love, acceptance, and what it really means to feel loved and wanted. JUST OUTSIDE THE SPOTLIGHT: GROWING UP WITH EILEEN HECKART by Writer Luke Yankee https://yankeehillproductions.com/?pa... Luke’s book, JUST OUTSIDE THE SPOTLIGHT: GROWING UP WITH EILEEN HECKART is published by Random House, under the banner of Back Stage Books. With a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore, this book chronicles the career of one of our greatest character actresses as seen through the eyes of her youngest son. Praised by critics nationwide, this endearing memoir contains over 65 photographs (many of which have never been seen before of stars like Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren and Lyndon Johnson) and funny, heartfelt stories of your favorite celebrities, including Paul Newman, Ellen Degeneres, Martha Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Louise Parker, Ethel Merman, Arthur Miller, Mary Pickford, and over fifty more. JUST OUTSIDE THE SPOTLIGHT will be a “must-read” for anyone who loves of show business – and for any son or daughter who loves their mother. THE ART OF WRITING FOR THE THEATRE: An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism and Playwriting by Writer Luke Yankee https://yankeehillproductions.com THE ART OF WRITING FOR THE THEATRE Description: Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of theatre writing, The Art of Writing for the Theatre provides everything you need to write like a seasoned theatre professional, including: This thorough introduction is supplemented with exercises and new interviews with a host of internationally acclaimed playwrights, lyricists, and critics, including Marsha Norman, Beth Henley, Lyn Gardner, Octavio Solis, Ismail Khalidi, and David Zippel, among many others. Accompanying online resources include playwriting and script analysis worksheets and exercises, an example of a playwriting resume, and critical points to consider on playwriting, design, acting, directing and choreography.