The Half Life Of Marie Curie at Life

The Half Life Of Marie Curie. The radioactivity, the beloved radium, the nobel prizes,. In 1920, marie curie developed cataracts.

Half life combines a first person fictionalised biography of famous polish scientist marie curie, with a speculative look at how her life would’ve turned out had she followed her heart not her head, and married her first love instead of moving to paris for her career. Close your eyes and just listen. Entwining marie curie’s real story with marya zorawska’s fictional one, half life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled—and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge.

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The first female professor hired at paris’ elite sorbonne had to write her lecture notes in huge letters and rely on. With humor and grace, this 90 minute play evokes their deep friendship, their struggles with double standards, the. Half life combines a first person fictionalised biography of famous polish scientist marie curie, with a speculative look at how her life would’ve turned out had she followed her heart not her head, and married her first love instead of moving to paris for her career. The play is so unassuming in its intentions, seemingly content to.