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| Ksenija Martinovic photo Daniele Fona |
ROME - Mileva, by Ksenija Martinovic, dramaturg Federico Bellini, with Ksenija Martinovic and Mattia Cason. Production CSS Stable theater of innovation of the FVG with the scientific advice of Marisa Michelini, full professor of Physics Didactics, University of Udine.
The story of Mileva, Albert Einstein's first wife, but also the first woman admitted to the physics course of the ETH Zurich.
On 19 September 2020, at the Lido Theater - Via delle Sirene, 10pm at 9pm, free admission.
The first edition of QuinteScienza at the Lido di Ostia Theater ends on 19 September with Mileva by Ksenija Martinovic with CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del FVG: 4 theatrical performances and 2 interactive and multidisciplinary lessons, for a late summer program full of knowledge for disseminate science, its history and its protagonists through intelligent entertainment open to all.
The closing of the festival is entrusted to an excellent production and a special focus on a complex figure of the scientific scene of all time: the wife of Albert Einstein.
An actress browses newspapers, books, surfs the web to collect fragments of a long-silent story one after the other. A biography reconstructed as a puzzle that lacks many pieces. The biography, yet another, of a scientist whose intelligence and discoveries have been overshadowed, almost hidden, for the benefit of a male colleague. But what to think if the scientist in question is the most brilliant mind of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein, and she, the female scientist, is Mileva Mari´c, his first wife, but also the first woman admitted to the physics course at the Polytechnic from Zurich? Space, time and gravity become metaphors of love and its shadows.
“Unlike Einstein's official biographies, where he appears as a pale shadow beside her husband” explained Ksenija Martinovic, “from various sources we learn instead that Mileva Mari´c was certainly not alien to the extraordinary creative progression of her partner; however, her confidentiality and having prematurely renounced her commitment as a scientist meant that her theoretical contribution is still questioned today. The biography of Mileva Mari´c immediately refers us to all those women put in the background, due to an evident gender discrimination; among the best known we can mention Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner and Jocelyn Bell. Recently this phenomenon has been defined as the Matilda Effect, and it can be seen well in the field of science ”.
Quintescienza, created by the Cultural Association Affabulation, is the winner of the "EurekaRoma" Public Notice and is part of RomaRama, the cultural program promoted by Roma Capitale.