RADIUM

A Theatre, Song & Science hybrid.

Radium tells the story of pioneering scientist Marie Curie in an atomic burst of history, poetry, light years and dark matter. It has played in Copenhagen and on stages and schools on tour across Denmark from October 2015 to March 2016.

Radium is a Theatre Lecture, an innovate mix of theatre, science, and live music.
It represents the next generation of the acclaimed Danish stage invention called the Theatre Concert.
It is a performance for the curious ... and for those who like their entertainment
to be as enlightening as it is enjoyable.

Radium blends documentary monologues, dreamy waltzes, and spinning videography with the Periodic Table, World War 1, Niels Bohr and a clicking Geiger Counter to portray a young woman who struggles to overcome daunting obstacles and male dominance within European academies in the late 19th Century to become the first female scientist to win a Nobel Prize. Along the way, Curie's efforts, along with her husband's, Pierre Curie, lead to the discovery of the mysterious and dangerous element Radium, a vivid symbol of her life`s triumphs and tragedies.

Radium songs feature new music by Lotte Andersen and Søren Møller with
lyrics by Neill Cardinal Furio. Together they make a varied playlist of classical string quartets, radioactive rave-ups, Nordic piano balladry, and dazzling word-play. The scenography is one part jazz bandstand, one part science lab, and one part videographic Belle Epoquean fantasy.

Lotte Andersen, a Danish actress internationally known for her roles in the TV series The Killing and The Bridge, and Anja Cetti Andersen, an astrophysicist from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, muse on the groundbreaking discoveries of Marie Curie, her spectacular life of achievement, the tabloid scandals and resistance to her career, the nature of invisible forces, scientific serendipity, and the shock of the new that the explosive developments in the arts and sciences brought to the turn of the 20th Century.

Cast: Lotte Andersen, Anja Cetti Andersen and Kristoffer Fabricius
Concept, Writer and Music: Lotte Andersen
Song Lyrics: Neill Cardinal Furio
Bandleader, Compositions, Arrangements & Keyboards: Søren Møller
Soundscapes, Beats & Electronic Arrangements: Spejderrobot
Director: Anne Sofie Espersen
Assistant Director: Sarah Thordsen
Dramaturgical Consultant: Karina Dichov Lund
Scenography: Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer
String Quartet: Jacob Buur(violin), Jenny Elfving (violin), Pauline Hogstrand (viola), Adam McKenzie (cello)
Kostumedesigner: Siff Pristed
Videodesign: Magnus Pind & Adam Ryde Ankarfeldt
Sound design: Mikael Brøndum
Lighting design: Malthe Haugaard