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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Robert Ford<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Amy Herzberg<br />
Associate Artistic Director<br />
ADMINISTRATION<br />
Elliott James<br />
Camille McCraw<br />
ARTISTIC<br />
Amy Herzberg<br />
Dexter J. Singleton<br />
Rebecca Rivas<br />
EDUCATION<br />
Morgan Hicks<br />
Emily Tomlinson<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
Corey Huffty<br />
Elizabeth France<br />
Christina Meré<br />
Martin Miller<br />
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Shannon A. Jones<br />
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Roland Liwag<br />
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Mary Martin<br />
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Kat Wepler<br />
Alex Worthington<br />
Ashleigh Burns<br />
Alex Carr<br />
Adam Cook<br />
Franklin Horvath<br />
Brodie Jasch<br />
Ruby Kemph<br />
Bryce Kemph<br />
Jenn McClory<br />
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Jerry L. Jensen*<br />
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York Times Critics’ Pick (in our first NYT review), along with coverage<br />
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Warmly,<br />
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(Secretary), Lynn Carver, Denise Garner, Susan Hall,<br />
Louis Martin, Catherine Roche, Kirk Thompson, Tod Yeslow<br />
Martin Miller<br />
Executive Director<br />
Robert Ford<br />
Artistic Director
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