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Anne Carson

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

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Anne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of view

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.
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24 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020

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  • Ivana Melgozashared an impression4 years ago
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  • laviviancahas quoted3 years ago
    CASE STUDY: The Russian military now uses decoy armaments of a Euripidean design — lifesize tanks, MiG-31 fighter jets and missile launchers made of inflatable plastic. A hot-air balloon company provides them to the Ministry of Defense.
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    • laviviancahas quoted3 years ago
      It took them ten years to walk to it.

      A thousand bloody T-shirts left on the sand.

      Oh I need a drink.

      Or a big bowl of whipped cream. I’ve got to think.
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      • laviviancahas quoted3 years ago
        The truth is,

        a cloud went to Troy.

        A cloud in the shape of Norma Jean Baker.

        The gods arranged it, sort of.

        They flew me to LA. Locked me in a suite of the Chateau Marmont.
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