Michelle Collins to star in MOTORHOME MARILYN at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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Michelle Collins (Eastenders, BBC) will make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill, playing Doonstairs, Gilded Balloon Patter House, from 30 July-25 August.
Motorhome Marilyn follows Denise, an aspiring actress with an obsessive relationship with Marilyn Monroe, hoping to live up to the icon’s fame and beauty. In the 1980s, she heads to Hollywood, but as her dreams falter, she is forced to confront the painful truth of unfulfilled aspirations.
Inspired by Michelle's real-life encounter with a woman known as ‘Motorhome Marilyn’, the play reveals the toll of living in the shadow of an icon, exploring failure, aging and the heartbreaking cost of unattained dreams.
Michelle Collins said: “I am thrilled to be making my Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Motorhome Marilyn, a wonderful new play which is dark, funny and so close to my heart. When I encountered the show’s real-life namesake out in LA, I couldn’t have imagined that journey would lead me to this point. However, thanks to Ben's, and my late friend Stuart's, wonderful writing, I can’t wait to share this story with Edinburgh audiences this summer.”
Motorhome Marilyn will be directed by Alexandra Spencer-Jones, with sound by Sam Baxter.