Norma Jeane Baker de Troie - Maya Bösch

Description

The Trojan War is an timeless myth. Its story, oscillating between abduction and seduction, reality and illusion, has traversed centuries, constantly reinventing itself. Euripides proposed a radical version: Helen was never in Troy, only an illusion of herself was taken there (a cloud), while she remained hidden in Egypt. Thus, Greeks and Trojans would have fought a baseless war, for a chimera.
This reading of a blindly led war forms the basis of ANNE CARSON's NORMA JEANE BAKER DE TROIE. Helen becomes Marilyn Monroe – Norma Jeane Baker, her birth name. Her Menelaus is named Arthur, like Arthur Miller, Marilyn's writer and husband. From then on, Helen and Norma Jeane become one: a woman shaped by male gazes, an object of fantasies and violence, caught in a destiny that does not belong to her.

Highlights

• Performance by Maya Bösch
• From March 4 to 14, 2027
• Helen and Marilyn Monroe merge together

General Information

"Norma Jeane Baker de Troie" is a contemporary adaptation of the myth of the Trojan War, where Helen is reinterpreted as Marilyn Monroe. The show takes place at the Maison Saint-Gervais in Geneva and explores themes of illusion and violence through the lens of the male gaze.

Location

Rue du Temple 5 , 1201 Genf, Switzerland

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