Marking the150 anniversary of
Maria Skłodowska-Curie birth
The Polish Museum of America
presents

RADIATION (PROMIENIOWANIE)
a theater performance directed by Kazimierz Braun

From the Polish Museum of America website: "It is an extraordinary story about a great scientist, presented in a form of dialogue between Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her daughter Ewa, touching upon the topics of Maria’s career, private life choices and dilemmas, and duties towards her family, nation and the broader society. The plot is situated in Sancellemoz – a sanatorium in Alps where Maria spent her last days. Ewa Curie decided to stay in Alps with Maria to write her biography."

 “It was a woman who loved her work and who was really persistent, but who also desired to do good. Through the process of getting to know her and playing this role, I became convinced that only immense, hard work can do good. It has been Kazimierz Braun’s intention for this play to have an educational aspect – it defends science, the pure one, but at the same time it also shows its danger.” (Maria Nowotarska in article: „Oby Promieniowanie promieniowało na cały świat,” M. Bonikowska, Gazeta, 2006)

                        CAST:  Maria Nowotarska as Maria Skłodowska-Curie
                                    Agata Pilitowska as Ewa Curie

Location: Sabina F. Logisz Great Hall of PMA,
984 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642

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