Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight (expired event)

Passionate. Brilliant. Defiant. Tonight, eighteenth-century scientific genius, Emilie du Châtelet, is back and determined to answer the question she died with: love or philosophy? Head or heart?

Join Emilie in this highly theatrical rediscovery of one of history’s most intriguing women as she makes sense of her life and legacy. Lauren Gunderson’s play Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight gives the real Emilie du Châtelet what she never had: an audience and world where women’s contribution to knowledge and learning are recognised and celebrated. As her long-time lover, the enigmatic Voltaire, once wrote: “[Emilie] was a great man whose only fault was being a woman”. Voltaire had the last word in his day, but Emilie gets the last word tonight. Michelle Ezzy, Director, said: “Emilie resonated with me from my first read.

This emotionally-gripping, funny, insightful and engaging story about an oft-forgotten French female physicist encapsulates my greatest passions: arts, women’s stories, and science. I can’t wait for Perth audiences to meet this phenomenal woman, and hope that audiences see women in history - and their everyday lives - a little differently.”