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User Review: 30Sep14: Have you ever wanted to be truly loved by someone? Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a just a play about Marilyn Monroe coming back from the dead. It is so much more, delving richly into the notion of what it means to truly be loved. Set entirely in a Hollywood motel room in the intimacy of the Kings Head Theatre, we first meet chipper Essex boy Joe (Jamie Hutchins) who has turned up to take his ballsy, foul-mouthed grandmother Lynnie (Vicki Michelle) back home to Essex after she has ‘wandered off’ from the nursing home that he has reluctantly put her into. But when Lynnie delivers the ace up her sleeve – revealing that she is in fact Marilyn Monroe, coming out of hiding after hiding away in an Essex seaside town for several decades, we are catapulted into a journey that deftly alternates between high comedy and heartbreaking poignancy. Can this mad Essex granny really be Marilyn? Vicki Michelle does a wonderful job in playing with our minds (alternating between a cross between Catherine Tate’s ‘Nan’ and User Reviews
Gavin Law (30Sep14): Have you ever wanted to be truly loved by someone? Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a just a play about Marilyn Monroe coming back from the dead. It is so much more, delving richly into the notion of what it means to truly be loved. Set entirely in a Hollywood motel room in the intimacy of the Kings Head Theatre, we first meet chipper Essex boy Joe (Jamie Hutchins) who has turned up to take his ballsy, foul-mouthed grandmother Lynnie (Vicki Michelle) back home to Essex after she has ‘wandered off’ from the nursing home that he has reluctantly put her into. But when Lynnie delivers the ace up her sleeve – revealing that she is in fact Marilyn Monroe, coming out of hiding after hiding away in an Essex seaside town for several decades, we are catapulted into a journey that deftly alternates between high comedy and heartbreaking poignancy. Can this mad Essex granny really be Marilyn? Vicki Michelle does a wonderful job in playing with our minds (alternating between a cross between Catherine Tate’s ‘Nan’ and
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5.00Gavin Law (30Sep14): Have you ever wanted to be truly loved by someone? Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a just a play about Marilyn Monroe coming back from the dead. It is so much more, delving richly into the notion of what it means to truly be loved. Set entirely in a Hollywood motel room in the intimacy of the Kings Head Theatre, we first meet chipper Essex boy Joe (Jamie Hutchins) who has turned up to take his ballsy, foul-mouthed grandmother Lynnie (Vicki Michelle) back home to Essex after she has ‘wandered off’ from the nursing home that he has reluctantly put her into. But when Lynnie delivers the ace up her sleeve – revealing that she is in fact Marilyn Monroe, coming out of hiding after hiding away in an Essex seaside town for several decades, we are catapulted into a journey that deftly alternates between high comedy and heartbreaking poignancy. Can this mad Essex granny really be Marilyn? Vicki Michelle does a wonderful job in playing with our minds (alternating between a cross between Catherine Tate’s ‘Nan’ and
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