Tangram Theatre Company

From the acclaimed team behind The Origin of Species and Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking,

‘I’m not really Marie Curie, I’m a man named John / I’ve just shaved really closely and put a dress on.’

Following smash hit musical comedies about Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, multi-award-winning Tangram Theatre Company return to take on ‘queen of radioactivity’ Marie Curie. Promising a treat for nerds and newcomers alike.

An adventurous musical-comedy-road-movie, the show follows Curie’s real-life journey across the USA to find a single gram of radium to continue her research. Featuring incredible scientific breakthroughs, very silly songs and an audience-participation radioactive decay chain, this is an exuberant celebration of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, whose work continues to affect our lives today.

The Element In The Room is written and performed by a cross-dressing John Hinton as Marie Curie in yet another shape-shifting tour-de-force performance, alongside Jo Eagle as Curie’s husband Pierre. The show is directed by Lecoq-trained Tangram Theatre Company artistic director Daniel Goldman, co-director of Caroline Horton’s Olivier Award nominated You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy.

The show completes the company’s musical ‘Scientrilogy’.