Photograph 51
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 1, 2010
Closed Nov 21, 2010
Opened Nov 1, 2010
Closed Nov 21, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
London, 1953. Scientists are on the verge of discovering what they call the secret of life: the DNA double helix. Providing the key is driven young physicist Rosalind Franklin. But if the double helix was the breakthrough of the 20th century, then what kept Franklin out of the history books? A play about ambition, isolation, and the race for greatness.
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Because anything concerning science is mistakenly believed by audiences to be dry stage material, it's understandable that in Photograph 51, now at Ensemble Studio Theatre under Lindsay Firman's firm direction, playwright Anna Ziegler has a tendency to get cute with her characters. She doesn't need to. There's enough palpable, persuasive drama in this work about the 1953 discovery of the search to delineate deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for several plays -- and just as compelling is the work's secondary search for male-female compatibility.
The photograph of Ziegler's title is taken by Rosalind Franklin (the tough yet vulnerable Kristen Bush), whose fascination from childhood with shap[...]