Suitcase Theatre

A theatre group with a difference, Suitcase Theatre brings untold stories from the past to make change in the present.

 

Our debut work will be a live recording of the radio play: Mum is MAD! 

 

This play started as a biography of the life of Lise Meitner, but has evolved into something much bigger. A relatively unknown name in science, Lise's life and legacy reveals a lot about how women have been, and continue to be, treated in science. Lise found a place in physics in an age where girls could not even attend school past the age of 14, and she went on to discover nuclear fission. Her work heralded the birth of the atomic age. She is the hero of this story, but this does not mean everything she did was necessarily heroic.

 

How can a society so uncomfortable with remembering impressive women, remember someone as complicated as Lise? Madame Curie is a household name, but she could have cured cancer. What can history do with the woman who, arguably, caused Hiroshima? 
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TASHA KITCHER

Writer, director, producer

BETHANY LATHAM

Lise Meitner, Margarethe

AMBER LICKERISH

Otto Frisch, Bohr