Radiance
by Alan Alda

Name: Radiance
Brand: Alan Alda
SKU: 9780573700606
Rating: 3.91 (30 reviews)

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

90 mins 1910s/WWI Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Bare Stage/Simple Set Period Costumes American Historical

Synopsis

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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Themes Curie, Pierre , 1859-1906 Curie, Marie , 1867-1934 PS3601.L33 R33 2012 Women chemists--France--Drama Women chemists

Press 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

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Paul Langevin A little younger than Marie.	—	—	A little younger than Marie.
Pierre Curie A little older than Marie.	—	—	A little older than Marie.
Jeanne Langevin 30s.	—	30s	30s.
Marguerite Borel 20s; a novelist.	—	20s	20s; a novelist.
Other Characters, Played By Members Of The Company:	—	—	—
Marie Curie Early 40s; slight Polish accent.	—	40s	Early 40s; slight Polish accent.