Espo Entertainment Productions
In association with MC of NY and World Tree Productions Present

JACKIE & MARILYN
Written by SHERI GRAUBERT

Starring AARON MATHIAS, LORRAINE FARRIS SAGE and LELLA SATIE

Directed by SANJA BESTIC
Composer, Lyricist and Music Director: ALEKSANDRA KOVAC and ROMAN GORSEK
Dialect Coach: JOHN VanWYDEN
Set Design: YONATAN GONZALEZ
Costume Design: ALEKSANDRA STOJIC ZUROVAC
Wig and Makeup Design: LJUPKA ARSOVSKA
Choreographer: BRIANNE MORGAN
Video Design: NEMANJA NOVAKOVIC, PATRICK MANDEVILLE
Lighting Design: DYLAN UREMOVICH
Sound Technician: L.C. DOUGLAS
Assistant Set Designer: JOHN VAIDE
Production Stage Manager: MICHAEL GRIFFITHS
Stage Manager: TATIANA MENDES
Assistant Stage Managers: ROBYN SIMPSON, BRANDI A. DYER, MATTHEW C. NICHOLOSON, PAUL PARK
Production Photographer: MARKO KRUNIC
Graphic Design: NEBOJSA BOBA VASLLJEVIC
Publicist: ANTOINIO MININO, KAMPFIRE PR AGENCY

Lion Theatre at Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues)
(212) 239-6200 or www.Telecharge.com
April 17th – May 3rd , Opening Night – 04/18/14

Shari Graubert’s JACKIE & MARILYN takes the most powerful man in the world with a penchant for soft-spoken women who mesmerize the public and wonders “what if?” Did President John F. Kennedy (Aaron Mathias) really have an ongoing affair with Marilyn Monroe (Lella Satie) and was Jackie (Lorraine Farris) aware? Amidst magnificent sets (Yonatan Gonzalez) and costumes to die for (Aleksandra Stojic Zurovac), this question is played out as reality. The results are over the top and melodramatic. Jackie and Marilyn are portrayed as sniveling, needy women and JFK is arrogant and slave to the desire of his penis.

Performances by Mathias, Satie, and Farris are intense, especially the sex between JFK and Marilyn and the personal musings of Jackie, and at times painful to watch.
And although the possibilities are rampant in this alleged love triangle, it is a bit risky to destroy the perfection of people we have put upon a pedestal, as well as courageous to tamper with American “royalty.” One wonders if a bit of mystery isn’t preferable to actually knowing. This slow-paced version of JACKIE & MARILYN turns on the light and exposes the underbelly of relationships. It’s not always pretty.

- Laurie Lawson -