LISTEN: An audio performance of Photograph 51—the award-winning play by abziegs about ambition, isolation and the race for greatness—streaming now from LATheatreWorks!
Last week, we provided one of these audio theater performances,—which tells the true stories of seven women who bravely fought for the well-being of women, families and children around the globe.—the award-winning play by Anna Ziegler about ambition, isolation and the race for greatness.
Anna Ziegler’s biographical drama about the scientist Rosalind Franklin is rich, complex, averse to melodramatic heroes and existentially moving: DNA is, after all, the key to life itself.London, 1953. Scientists are on the verge of discovering what they call the secret of life: the DNA double helix. Providing the key is Rosalind Franklin, a driven young physicist.
But if the double helix was the breakthrough of the 20th century, then what kept Franklin out of the history books?Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950’s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Krick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecule’s double helix structure—yet it was Franklin’s skill with X-ray diffraction that first uncovered what’s called “the secret of life.
Includes interviews with Brenda Maddox, the world’s foremost biographer of Rosalind Franklin and author of and Dr. Pamela Björkman, the Max Delbruck Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.During this time, . is keeping a focus on aspects of the crisis—especially as it impacts women and their families—often not reported by mainstream media.
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