the PLAY
By Lauren Gunderson
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.
“Inherently dramatic. Rebecca Harris and Leontyne Mbele-Mbong both really know how to deliver the mail. Ms. Harris is compelling and entirely believable. So fully does she embody her role that it hardly seems as if she’s acting at all. Ms. Mbele-Mbong is no less convincing, and the production is exceedingly handsome and beautifully staged. TheatreSquared is clearly worthy of its fine reputation.”
“Enlightening and entertaining, it radiates empowerment.”
CAST AND TEAMS
CAST
REBECCA HARRIS* Marie Curie
LEONTYNE MBELE-MBONG Hertha Ayrton
CREATIVE
ASHLEIGH BURNS Scenic Designer
RUBY KEMPH Costume Designer
JASON LYNCH Lighting Designer
MICHAEL PRIETO Sound Designer
CHRISTOPHER SMITH Director of Photography
BRODIE JASCH Properties Manager
STEPHANIE COLLINS Stage Manager
WATCH & LISTEN
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