Tennessee Women’s Theater Project
P.O. Box 158525
Nashville, Tennessee 37215
(615) 681-7220
Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
February 19 – March 6, 2016
Z. Alexander Looby Library & Theater
2301 Rosa L. Parks Blvd.
Nashville, Tennessee 37228
Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight explores the life and loves of Emilie du Châtelet, a scientific genius of the 18th century. Women of her era were considered too simple-minded to understand mathematics or physics, but Emilie was a mathematician and a physicist. In the play, Emilie has returned from the afterlife to recount and defend her life.