Siren's Heart Norma Jean and Marilyn Monroe in Purgatory August 12, 2012

'Siren's Heart' is not the familiar victim narrative about Marilyn Monroe. She is still a living icon in the hearts and minds of millions, but in her own time, Norma Jean was suffocated by the mask of Marilyn and the weight of living up to that impossible ideal of beauty crushed her. The show imagines another place where we see Marilyn, or Norma Jean, as she might have been; as she wanted to be: the well-rounded, unhaunted person she couldn't be in her all-too-brief life.