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''Strawhead'' is a play by American writers Norman Mailer and Richard Hannum about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.〔Lawson, Carol. (January 30, 1981) New York Times ''(Broadway; Leach to direct musical on orphans going west by rail. )'' Section: C; Page C2.〕 The play is a stage adaptation of Mailer's 1980 book, ''Of Women and Their Elegance'', an imaginary memoir told in Monroe's voice.〔 ''Strawhead'' takes place in New York City during the last few days of Monroe's life in August 1962, a period in which she is alone with her memories, most of which revolve around the days when she lived in New York.〔Nemy, Enid. (December 20, 1985) New York Times ''(Broadway. )'' Section: C2.〕 The play largely is composed of a fanciful collection of interviews that never took place between Monroe and Mailer during Marilyn Monroe's last hours.〔〔Engstrom, John. (March 9, 1983) The Boston Globe ''Norman wasn't stormin'. No thunderbolts from Mailer or his audience during a reading of his new play.'' Section: Living.〕 The play made its Off Broadway debut in January 1986,〔 which included Mailer's wife Norris Church in the cast and subsequently his daughter Kate Mailer in the Monroe role.〔 Kate Mailer additionally appeared on the April 1986 Vanity Fair cover as the Marilyn Monroe character in ''Strawhead.''〔Burns, Diane Hubbard. (April 3, 1986) Orlando Sentinel ''Luring covers promise a lot, deliver little.'' Section: Style; Page E1.〕 ==Development== In 1967, Norman Mailer had adapted his 1955 novel ''The Deer Park'' for an Off Broadway production.〔 Thirteen years later, in 1980, Norman Mailer's agent informed Mailer that Richard Hannum, then a Manhattan roommate of Godspell creator John-Michael Tebelak,〔Castillo, Angel. (May 12, 1981) New York Times ''(Frampton suit puts focus on cohabitation law. )'' Section: B; Page 1.〕 American Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Stephen Hunter, and film director and composer Tom O'Horgan were interested in a stage adaptation of Mailer's 1980 book, ''Of Women and Their Elegance''.〔 Mailer agreed to work on the play since it would be a pleasant diversion: "Novel writing is a lonely business. Lonely business quickly becomes grim. In theater you're working with people. The climate is a lot warmer."〔 The stage adaptation was Mailer's second foray into the theater behind the ''The Deer Park'' adaptation.〔 The play takes its title from an FBI code name for Monroe.〔People (magazine) (October 19, 1992) ''(Lorenzo Carcaterra, Carol Peace, Jill Rachlin, Ralph Novak, Eric Levin. )'' Section: Picks & Pans. Page 36. (writing, " The uninitiated -- for whom the line between fact and fiction will be all but blurred -- may simply tire of repetitive accounts of Marilyn popping pills and the FBI's bugging every room that Strawhead (Monroe's code name) visited.")〕 According to Mailer, Strawhead represents "(Marilyn's) ironic, whimsical, tortured way of thinking." 〔 Mailer sees the fictional Monroe character in the play as "having an immensely dialectical mind; no sooner does she have a thought, than she comes on its opposite. That's the way life presents itself to her - in contrasts and sudden shifts."〔 In January 1981, Hannum and Hunter were listed as the producers of the play and O'Horgan was listed as the director.〔 At that time, Mailer had hoped that the play would open on Broadway in the spring 1981 or the fall 1981, but had not yet cast the Monroe character.〔 In addition, Hannum still was working on the play construction and Mailer was working on the play dialogue from his writing desk in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn.〔〔Time (magazine) (January 5, 1987) ''(Most of '86, )'' Section: Show Business; Page 74.〕 To move the script along, Mailer presented the beginnings of ''Strawhead'' for critique to the Actors Studio Playwright And Directors Unit, an exclusive group to which Mailer belonged.〔Greer, Bonnie. (November 12, 2007) The Independent ''(Farewell to a feisty, fearless keeper of the flame. )'' Section: Comment; Page 36.〕 The early draft had a clichéd Monroe giving a blowjob to the Mailer-interviewer character.〔 In response to former Marilyn Monroe roommate and Academy Award winning actress Shelley Winters blasting Mailer's effort, Mailer rewrote the part to be a burly Maileresque feminist who burst into the play from the audience.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Strawhead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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