Planches de salut : (trans)figurations théâtrales de Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe, an actress on its own, did well on theatre as well. She was indeed the heroin of numerous plays, and was “embodied” by various actresses. What is the point of putting a film star on the boards? Is it to offer her some kind of artistic redemption? What about her charismatic and so well-known body, thus transferred into another one, living, and offered anew to renewed male and female gazes?