Gunderson s scientist plays feature Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Emilie du Châtelet, Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace.
Lily Janiak January 21, 2021Updated: January 27, 2021, 7:24 am
Emilie (Robyn Grahn, foreground), Soubrette (Neiry Rojo) and Voltaire (Catherine Luedtke) in Ross Valley Players’ “Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight.” Photo: Gregg Le Blanc, Ross Valley Players
Nathan Wolfe is just one of the scientists who gets to step into the spotlight in the plays of Lauren Gunderson. Among that group, Wolfe is unique, both because he’s her husband and because Gunderson’s scientist subjects tend to be women, many of them the trailblazers few of us learned about in school.
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice P. Nimura W.W.Norton & Co.
Smashing the patriarchy is hard work.
The Doctors Blackwell, by historian Janice P. Nimura, profiles two sisters who faced what was a daunting lack of choices for 19th century women. They achieved a series of near-impossible feats to become America s first and third certified women medical doctors. Nimura s account is not only an exhaustive biography, but also a window into egregious 19th century medical practices and the role these sisters played in building medical institutions.
“Ada and the Engine” at Silver Spring Stage.
“Ada and the Engine” written by Lauren Gunderson, produced by Alika Codispoti and Maura Suilebhan, and directed by Jon Jon Johnson for Silver Spring Stage opened virtually on Friday, January, 15, 2021. Typical of several of Gunderson’s works, this play illuminates the life of a little-known woman who made a big impact in her field of expertise. In this case, the plot revolves around the daughter of the poet, Lord Byron, who he abandoned along with her mother at birth. Byron, if you remember, was a rogue who died young and part of the British Romantic poets that included Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. Ada (Danielle Gallo) was his daughter. She was brilliant mathematician and is recognized today as the first woman programmer. She programmed for Charles Babbage (Kevin Dykstra) who is credited with developing the prototype for the first computer.
Paladin’s AMERICAN GOMORRAH ™ “Two Impostors” Edition
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
An excerpt from IF by Rudyard Kipling, written for his only son John, who died in 1915 on the Western Front. He was only 18.
Paladin knows a few millennials – half of them never read a Kipling poem or anything else by him. Most of them know only the Disney plushie versions of his tales. And the other half wouldn’t read Kipling because they have been instructed to consider the man a privileged white race criminal worthy only of revulsion, censor and book burning.
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