Open for little more than a year – or at least rebranded from its previous name Proud Embankment – the Emerald Theatre can quite reasonably lay claim to the title of most cursed new theatre in London: its inaugural show Diamonds and Dust had to drastically curtail its run with reports of millions of pounds of debt; a bizarre sounding drag Macbeth (Category Is: Macbeth) was cancelled before previews began due to lack of sales.
Could Who Killed Marilyn? turn it around? Well why not, eh. Pop star Pixie Lott plays Marilyn Monroe in Sharleen Cooper Cohen conspiracy thriller, which posits movie star Monroe as a smart woman laid low by a web of corruption that stretched up to the government and beyond. Philip Wm McKinley directs.
