Exil intérieur; Prix No'Bell
Exil intérieur; Prix No'Bell
Élisabeth Bouchaud
Exil intérieur, Lise Meitner:
As Germany witnesses the rise of the Nazi party to power, Lise Meitner is about to make a discovery that will change world history: nuclear fission. Forced to flee the country, she finds refuge in Stockholm while her collaborator and friend, Otto Hahn, remained in Berlin and took over her research. He was the one to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944, thus shielding one of the greatest contemporary scientists from the public eye. The premiere of Exil Intérieur took place on November 16, 2022, at the Théâtre La Reine Blanche, directed by Marie Steen and starring Élisabeth Bouchaud, Benoît di Marco, and Imer Kutllovci.
Prix No’Bell, Jocelyn Bell:
While working on her thesis at the University of Cambridge, Jocelyn Bell accidentally detected a light signal that proved to be of paramount importance to astrophysics. Her advisor, initially skeptical, eventually decided to claim her work without even giving her due credit. Bell, whose work was finally recognized years later, never received the Nobel Prize awarded to her former professor. The premiere of Prix No’Bell took place in December 2022 at the Théâtre La Reine Blanche, directed by Marie Steen and starring Clémentine Lebocey, Roxane Driay, and Benoît di Marco.
Exil Intérieur, Lise Meitner, and Prix No’Bell, Jocelyn Bell, are part of the “Flammes de science” project, conceived by Élisabeth Bouchaud to honor women who, despite great discoveries, remained in the shadow of their male colleagues.
Available
2022
French
978-2-7498-1590-0
Drama
L'avant-scène théâtre
Élisabeth Bouchaud is a French physicist, actress and playwright. She has worked for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and taught at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI).
Since 2015, she has directed the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in Paris. In 2019, she created the Avignon-Reine Blanche theatre in Avignon, and the La Salle Blanche actor training school, with Florient Azoulay and Xavier Gallais. Together, these two theatres and this school form Scènes Blanches.