Past

The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Date

August 23-25 & 27-30, 2024

Venue

Doreen Black Box Theater

Description

In 1911, Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married Frenchman Paul Langevin, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and demoralized by the press lambasting her as a “foreign" Jewish temptress and a homewrecking traitor, Marie agrees to join her friend and colleague Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, and recover from the scandal at Hertha's seaside retreat on the British coast.

The Half-Life of Marie Curie revels in the power of female friendship as it explores the relationship between these two brilliant women, both of whom are mothers, widows, and fearless champions of scientific inquiry.

A MusicArtes, Inc. production presented by Areté and co-presented by the Philippine Theater Actors Guild, Inc. and the Ateneo Fine Arts Department, The Half-Life of Marie Curie will be staged at the Doreen Black Box, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University from August 23 to 24, 2024. Regular tickets are priced at ₱700. For tickets, please visit bit.ly/MarueCurieMNL2024