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Mercury Poisoning by Snatched Theatre Collective’s Madeline Stedman is mostly set in the 1960s between the US and the Soviet Union amidst the heightened era of space exploration – where humankind had reached new leaps and bounds beyond their imagination.
Madeleine Stedman’s mammoth debut play - starting with the launch of Sputnik 1, spanning two continents and, of course, outer space, containing dozens of characters - is a true epic orbiting themes of progress, solidarity and moral licensing. Director Kim Hardwick.
Mar 23, 2024 · The playwright Madeleine Stedman has dramatized the story behind the first Russian female cosmonaut as well as an attempt to train a group of women pilots to join NASA. The players of Mercury Poisoning take us keenly into the world of the space race, and how the promise of space travel also became a vehicle for social change in both the Soviet ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Succinctly and accurately described on the KXT website, Mercury Poisoning is most definitely “ Madeleine Stedman ’s mammoth debut play”. It’s inarguably mammoth – a cast of 12 playing multiple characters – and its imaginative reach is as limitless as its setting: the original 1960s space race between the USA and USSR.
Mar 21, 2024 · Madeleine Stedman’s Mercury Poisoning involves three women in the 1960s, inspired by true stories about their respective relationships with space travel. These lives never cross paths, but they are in some ways parallel, not only in aeronautical terms, but also with their fights against structural sexism, which proves a defining force.
Mar 21, 2024 · Mercury Poisoning by Madeleine Stedman is set in the early 1960’s and focuses on the space race between the USA and the USSR. It bounces intoxicatingly between three separate plotlines: the female cosmonaut program in Russia; the female astronaut program in America; and also in America, an African-American actor working on a TV series that is ...
But Madeleine Stedman is exploring a new angle: a history of women in space, from the two competing countries, America and Russia. She presents us with two women of the 1960s.
