Company Introduction

LIVE Corp. plans and develops global content. The Company has planned and produced diverse creative musicals and films: creative musicals (Rimbaud, Marie Curie, Fan Letter, My Bucket List, Bachelor’s Vegetable Store and Paradise Ticket), plays (Apartment for Rent and Wusu the Deliveryman of Happiness) and films (House of the Disappeared and Respect). The musical My Bucket List has been presented successfully through a Chinese license at Shanghai Cultural Square since 2017 and it is having its tour in 13 cites in 2019. It is also developed as a Chinese film (through Chinese film studio Masters China). LIVE is also running "Glocal Musical Live," a program supporting creative musicals. This program helps story writers make their debut and discovers promising projects by new and existing creators. In this way, the Company provides them with opportunities to work not only in Korea but also in other countries such as Japan and China. The project thus contributes to invigorating the creation of ’glocal’ content of musicals. The Company will do its best to plan and develop original cultural content loved not only by Koreans but also by global citizens.

Performance Detail

Marie Curie elaborates on the scientist Marie Curie who discovers radium and receives a Nobel Prize but faces an obstacle caused by the harmful effects of radium. The performance depicts how she overcomes her anguish to move forward to realize her dream.

Synopsis

In 1902, in Paris, France. Marie Curie and her husband and research companion Pierre Curie discover a new radioactive element called radium after long research and win the Nobel Prize for Physics. The couple’s friend Ruben, who is an entrepreneur, suggests commercializing radium and people become enthusiastic about diverse radium products. One day, Anne, a woman working at a radium factory, comes to the couple’s laboratory. Saying that female factory workers handling radium are dying, Anne asks the couple to make clear the harmful effects of radium. In fact, Marie wants to keep silence to keep her honor intact so she is ceaselessly opposed to Pierre who continues to test the harmful effects of radium, even exposing himself to radiation. In court, Pierre testifies for the female workers who stand against Ruben but through Ruben’s scheme, Pierre dies during the court recess. After this, Marie falls into despair but she finds experiment notes left by Pierre and discovers a new possibility of radium (radiation treatment). She then starts her experiment again…

Writer: Se-eun Cheon / Composition: Jong-yun Choi / Directing: Tae-hyung Kim

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