Performance: Joan Ellis: Died Blondes

Re-imagining the famous last words of Marilyn Monroe and Ruth Ellis

Marilyn Monroe. Ruth Ellis. Infamous women. Famous last words reimagined. What secrets did Marilyn whisper to Joe DiMaggio? How did Ruth Ellis justify her crime to the lover she shot, David Blakely?

Piecing together the latest theories, award-winning writer, Joan Ellis enables two so-called dumb blondes to find their voice during her stunning solo performance.

Joan is the author of four acclaimed books including psychological thrillers, Guilt and The Killing of Mummy’s Boy – shortlisted for the Winston Fletcher Fiction Prize 2016 – chick lit, I am Ella. Buy Me, and her ‘funny yet poignant’ memoir The Things You Missed While You Were Away.

Part of the Plymouth Festival of Words. Find out more at www.plymouth.ac.uk/campaign/plymouth-festival-of-words

Ticket information: £6/£4.20. Discounts available to Plymouth University students through SPiA.