Cook County News Herald

The Half-Life of Marie Curie showing this weekend



The Grand Marais Playhouse is very pleased to present The Half-Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson. The play opened Thursday, March 10 and will run one weekend only through March 13. Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday’s performances will be live streamed, and a video will be available on demand Friday through Sunday.

Advanced tickets are preferred and available at www.grandmaraisplayhouse.com/store

Tickets are $15 youth, $25 adults and $50 Household (up to five people)

Proof of vaccination and masks are required for admittance.

Live stream and on demand tickets are available from a link located at the Playhouse store. They are not sold out as the site claims, simply follow the link in the description to another ticketing agency. Individual $15, plus fees, Household, $25 plus fees.

The Annual Community youth (high school) play is a two-woman powerhouse production selected by our two graduating seniors Elsa Garry and Greta Roth. The Half-life of Marie Curie is a play about the friendship between Marie Curie and Hertha Ayrton when Marie escaped the onslaught of negative French press over an affair and recovered at Hertha’s summer home in England.

On Sunday, following the performance, the Grand Marais Playhouse will present Elsa Garry and Greta Roth with the “Excellence in Theater” Scholarship Award for their commitment to theater in our community throughout their scholastic career.

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