“The Half-Life of Marie Curie” will be staged May 10-June 1 at the Riverfront Playhouse in Aurora.
Doreen Dawson stars as Hertha Ayrton and Heidi Swarthout stars as Marie Curie in “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” by playwright Lauren Gunderson. It will be staged at the Riverfront Playhouse in Aurora May 10 to June 1. A play about two brilliant woman scientists — one the subject of gossip so ruthless and cutthroat it caused her to flee the country — will be performed in Aurora.
“I’ve done some plays by Lauren Gunderson — she’s the most prolific, produced playwright in America. I came across this play and I couldn’t believe nobody had done it in the Chicago area at all. The opportunity came up to remount it at the Riverfront Playhouse in Aurora.” She loves to write about historical people, especially women, some familiar and some unknown, he said.
“It’s really a story about these two women and a challenging moment in Marie Curie’s life,” he said. “Her husband had died, she had been cast out in society, she was trying to find her way forward and Hertha helped her by basically stealing her away from France and taking her to England where she could retool and regroup. It’s a real lovely, small chamber play.
“It’s a really lovely story with these two people during a short period in their lives,” he said. “And the challenges Marie faces, can she move forward, what’s she going to do. Obviously, they have a moment where there’s a falling out and there’s a moment where they come together. And in very Gunderson fashion, there’s a whole thing about what they accomplish as time moves forward.”
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