The Unremarkable Death Of Marilyn Monroe

Dyad Productions return with another thought-provoking piece of theatre. It would be easy to focus on the tabloid fodder she provided; the marriages, the affairs, the way she died. This isn’t just a stage version of ‘Candle In The Wind’, it provides possible answers and shines new light on her issues. The search for love she craved due to a non-existent father, a dysfunctional mother, a sufferer of child abuse which may have caused a life of severe gynaecological issues and, dare we say of a sex goddess, understandable frigidness. Her coping mechanism – pill popping – which unremarkably probably killed her.

Connaught Theatre, Worthing, 19 April 2014

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