"Ziegler's thoughtful, empathetic play brings home with bitter
comedy the unlovely male-domination of this world in the 1950s ...
glorious." Independent London 1953. Scientists are on the verge of
discovering what they call the secret of life: the DNA double
helix. Providing the key is driven young physicist Rosalind
Franklin. But if the double helix was the breakthrough of the 20th
century, then what kept Franklin out of the history books? A play
about ambition, isolation, and the race for greatness. Photograph
51 premiered in the UK in London's West End in 2015 in a production
which starred Nicole Kidman, where it won the WhatsOnStage Award
for Best New Play. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama's
Modern Classics series, this edition features a brand-new
introduction by Mandy Greenfield.
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