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Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie

  • Alan Alda
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI
  • 5M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573700606

"Juicy, gaslit melodrama...illuminates the challenges that Marie Curie faced in pursuing a career in the sciences at a time when it was virtually unheard of for women to take prominent roles in academic or public life."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1910s / WWI
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
With backbreaking work in a ramshackle lab in Paris, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre achieve a revolutionary understanding of radiation and share a Nobel Prize. When her beloved Pierre dies in an accident, Marie is plunged into depression.

Paul Langevin, fleeing an unhappy marriage, gives her the strength to return to her work. But the scandal over their affair threatens to end her career – just when she might become the first person ever to receive a second Nobel Prize.
REVIEWS:

"Juicy, gaslit melodrama... illuminates the challenges that Marie Curie faced in pursuing a career in the sciences at a time when it was virtually unheard of for women to take prominent roles in academic or public life."

 The New York Times

Premiere Production: 2011 Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, California.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • MARIE CURIE - Early 40's; slight Polish accent
    PAUL LANGEVIN - A little younger than Marie
    PIERRE CURIE - A little older than Marie
    JEANNE LANGEVIN - 30's
    ÉMILE BOREL - 40's; a methematician
    MARGUERITE BOREL - 20's; a novelist

    Can Be Played by the Same Actor:
    TERBOUGIE - 50's; a journalist; can be played by the same actor who plays TÖRNEBLADH.
    TÖRNEBLADH - 50's; a scientist; Swedish accent; can be played by the same actor who plays TERBOUGIE.

    Other Characters, Played by Members of the Company:
    SECONDS AT A DUEL
    STUDENTS

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    With backbreaking work in a ramshackle lab in Paris, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre achieve a revolutionary understanding of radiation and share a Nobel Prize. When her beloved Pierre dies in an accident, Marie is plunged into depression. Paul Langevin, fleeing an unhappy marriage, gives her the strength to return to her work. But the scandal over their affair threatens to end her career – just when she might become the first person ever to receive a second Nobel Prize.

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