Bio Rosalind Franklin, Nicole Kidman and Photograph 51

摘要

I must admit that when I first heard that Nicole Kidman, winner of the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, was to take the role of the pioneering structural biologist Rosalind Franklin in a West End play, I was slightly sceptical. However accustomed to portraying brilliant minds, a blonde Australian seemed to be an odd choice for an upper-middle-class Englishwoman who was culturally, if not religiously, very much a Jew. But I couldn't resist the idea of a play about one of the most crucial moments in the history of molecular biology. I was lucky enough to acquire tickets for Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51 at the Noel Coward Theatre, and I was not disappointed. The play was compelling.