Marilyn: Scenes from the ’50s in two acts

About the show

Twelve scenes interweave Marilyn Monroe’s personal life and decline with American political and civic events. Scenes include her childhood memories, General MacArthur in Korea, House Un-American Activities Committee interrogations, the prosecution of Wilhelm Reich, Beat poets discussing Marilyn’s death, a supper with Yves Montand, Timothy Leary’s drug lecture, and Monroe’s death under alcohol and barbiturates as the crowd celebrates the American way of life.