The Real Mother of Marilyn Monroe
Creative Team
DIRECTOR
Ramiro Silveira
CAST
Gladys Baker Monroe: Flloyd Kennedy
Marylin Monroe: Fernanda Mandagará
Lydia Martinez: Leanne Shorley
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By: Armando Nascimento Rosa
Translated by: Susannah Finzi
Don’t ‘momma’ me. You’re not my daughter.
Gladys Baker is acerbic, manipulative, witty – and demented. Her daughter Norma Jeane, the most famous woman in America, is fragile, desperately needy and harbouring impossible dreams.
Their encounter is painfully raw but also humorous – of lives touched by the likes of Jo di Maggio, Clark Gable, Arthur Miller, John F Kennedy – personalities we know through a thousand black and white images and the distorting prism of celebrity and of legend. Like Marilyn Monroe herself.Armando Nascimento Rosa plays deftly with legend, both ancient and contemporary. In “The Real Mother…” we could be in a photographer’s dark room, watching a picture emerging in the developing fluid from the confusion that is the minds of these two women. But reality becomes increasingly elusive, events appear to mirror each other, make-believe can be a dangerous game and history stalks outside the walls, getting closer all the time. The only certainty is that gunshot. Dallas, November 22nd 1963.
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