Jack, Nikita and Norma-Jeane
By Playwright Raymond Russell
A surprising Off-Broadway
hit in the Greenwich Village Theatre, New York, which premiered in March 1975
and ran for nearly two years. The young British writer’s debut, stunned
conservative New Yorkers when it showed President Kennedy (Jack) fighting and
making love with Marilyn Monroe (Norma-Jeane) in a motel just outside of
Washington DC.
Constantly interrupted by his
brother Teddy who was also obsessed with Marilyn and (Nikita) Khrushchev, the
Soviet Premier. The plot suggested that Kennedy was too obsessed with Marilyn
to make the right decisions, as the Soviet armada headed towards Cuba and World
War III.
A sexy, shocking, nail
biter, which had naive Americans traumatized until they got home.
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