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| Ison's Marilyn Kulcsar |
It was a chilly August night and I was looking for a show to see and so I came across a play about Marilyn Monroe at the Seattle Public Theater, Sleep, Marilyn and Dream, a new play Written, Designed, and directed by Hungarian bred, David Kulcsar, as he told me in an Exclusive interview, is a play about "The inspiration behind the play was to tell a story in which I could explore current issues ( class, media, income inequality, and immigration/citizenship) by putting it into an artistic context; in this case, Marilyn Monroe in an afterlife where people in Purgatory are used as labor in Heaven. I also really wanted to show a different side of Marilyn and explore the things that mainstream media doesn't really show about her (her fear of sex, her childhood, etc.) So, I created what I did to tell both stories in one neat little package. It's a project I always wanted to do, but I didn't start writing it until around November of last year when I had a dream in which Marilyn Monroe and I were having coffee, and she not only knew my name, but asked about the play...".
Yes, you read that right, Marilyn (looking like she is 28) arrives in Heaven, 54 years later, it was delayed, largely based on her apparent suicide and now she has a suite in the Lush Hollywood highrise and is visited by old friends, Marlon Brando (Kulcsar), Jane Russell (Mindy Beal), and meets Audrey Hepburn (Emily Shuel) for the first time.
