The Half-Life of Marie Curie
In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with a married Frenchman, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and demoralized by an unrelenting and unforgiving press, Marie joins her friend and colleague Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, to recover from the scandal at Hertha's seaside retreat on the British coast. Presented by TheatreSquared in the first production since its New York debut, The Half-Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson (Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley) revels in the power of female friendship between two fearless scientists at the heights and depths of their careers and lives.
In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with a married Frenchman, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and demoralized by an unrelenting and unforgiving press, Marie joins her friend and colleague Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, to recover from the scandal at Hertha's seaside retreat on the British coast. Presented by TheatreSquared in the first production since its New York debut, The Half-Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson (Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley) revels in the power of female friendship between two fearless scientists at the heights and depths of their careers and lives.
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15TH<br />
ANNIVERSARY<br />
SEASON<br />
RUSSIAN TROLL FARM: A WORKPLACE COMEDY<br />
THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE<br />
A CHRISTMAS CAROL<br />
SCHOOL GIRLS; OR THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY<br />
MY FATHER'S WAR<br />
DESIGNING WOMEN<br />
PASS OVER<br />
AT THE WEDDING<br />
MATILDA: THE MUSICAL<br />
AMERICAN MARIACHI<br />
TWELFTH NIGHT<br />
THE SHOW GOES ON<br />
THEATRE2.ORG/SUBSCRIBE OR 479.777.7477
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