The biography of Mileva Maric – scientist and first wife of Albert Einstein – immediately reminds us of all those women who were put in the background due to blatant gender discrimination; women like Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitener and Jocelyn Bell, to name but a few. An unequal treatment that has also been codified under the name ‘Matilda Effect’, which is widespread and recurrent in the scientific world. But what if the scientist in question is the most brilliant mind of the 20th century, Albert Einstein, and she, the woman scientist, is Mileva Maric, his first wife, but also the first woman admitted to the physics course at the Zurich Polytechnic?
The CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia presents Mileva, a play written, directed and performed by Ksenija Martinovic and Mattia Cason, dramaturg Federico Bellini.