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Photograph 51
Anna Ziegler
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Photograph 51
Anna Ziegler
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'The instant I saw the photograph my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race' Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life it could be the one to hold the key. With rival scientists looking everywhere for the answer, who will be first to see it and more importantly, understand it? Anna Ziegler's extraordinary play looks at the woman who cracked DNA and asks what is sacrificed in the pursuit of science, love and a place in history. Nicole Kidman made her much anticipated return to the London stage in the role of Rosalind Franklin, the woman who discovered the secret to Life, in the UK premiĂšre of Anna Ziegler's award-winning play.
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(The Lights rise on ROSALIND.)
ROSALIND: This is what it was like. We made the invisible visible. We could see atoms, not only see themâmanipulate them, move them around. We were so powerful. Our instruments felt like extensions of our own bodies. We could see everything, really see itâexcept, sometimes, what was right in front of us.
When I was a child I used to draw shapes. Shapes overlapping, like endless Venn diagrams. My parents said, âRosalind, maybe you should draw people? Donât you want to draw our family? Our little dog?â I didnât. I drew patterns of the tiniest repeating structures. In my mind were patterns of the tiniest repeating structures.
WILKINS: It was a particularly cold winter in London. January 1951.
ROSALIND: And when I first got to use my fatherâs camera, I went outside and found four leaves. I arranged them carefully, on the curb. But the photograph I took was not of leaves. You see, nothing is ever just one thing. This was the world, a map of rivers and mountain ranges in endless repetition. And when I told my father I wanted to become a scientist, he said, âAh. I see.ââŠThen he said âNo.â
WILKINS: And at the same time, in Parisâ
WATSON: Not again, Wilkins. Really?
WILKINS: In Paris, Rosalind Franklin was saying her goodbyes.
ROSALIND: (As though addressing a large group of peopleâher colleagues in Paris; her French is perfect.)
Oh, vous me flattez plus que je ne mérite.
(She laughs.)
But I do appreciate it. I will so miss you all, and the work weâve done here together. Never have I encountered such fastidiousness coupled with such, yes Iâll say it, joy. I will miss it. And the breadâŠAnd the wineâŠAnd oh the cheese! But mostly I will miss you.
(She smiles, a twinkle in her eye, but then, after a moment, puts her hair in a bun.)
CRICK: (To the audience.) She didnât want to leave the Laboratoire Central, but sheâd just won a fellowship at Kingâs College London and one didnât turn down a job at Kingâsâespecially since there was a chance sheâd get to work in the field of geneticsâ
CASPAR: A field in which the possibilities wereâŠwell, they were endless. In which the promise of personal and professional fulfillment was tangible.
GOSLING: So she wrote aâŠpolite letter to Dr. Wilkins requesting the instruments sheâd require:
ROSALIND: (Writing the letter, all formality.) I require an X-ray generating tube. And a camera specially made so that the temperature inside it can be carefully controlled. Otherwise, the solution will change during its exposure, and Dr. Wilkins you know as well as I do that that just wonât do. Finally, if at all possible, Iâd like to know when this order will be placed so that, if need be, I can request a few minor modifications. Yours sincerely, Dr. Rosalind Franklin.
WILKINS: Dear Miss Franklin, you are ever soâŠcordial. But I must warn youâwe at Kingâs are very serious. So serious, in fact, and intent on being at âthe cutting edgeâ as they say, that we will be moving your research into another area entirely.
(WILKINS and ROSALIND at Kingâs together.)
ROSALIND: I beg your pardon?
WILKINS: Yes, instead of proteins you will be working on deciphering the structure of DNA.
ROSALIND: Is that so.
WILKINS: You see, I recently took X-ray photos of a particular sample of DNA that came out remarkably well, showing that it is unmistakably crystalline in shape. Therefore it now seems evident that Kingâs needs to push forward in this endeavor, in determining, through crystallography, at which you are quite expertâ
ROSALIND: Thank you. I am.
WILKINS: Yes. No one will argue with that. (Beat.) At any rate, we need to push forward in determining why it is that in the chromosome the numbers of purines and pyrimidines come in pairs. So that we can then determine how replication works. So that we can then determineâ
ROSALIND: I know what youâre talking about.
WILKINS: Yes, yes I suppose you do. Then Iâll leap straight to the point. You will be assisting me in my study of the Signer DNA from Switzerland. Everyone wanted it and yet somehow Randall got it. The old rogue. I donât know how he did itâŠ
ROSALIND: I donât think I heard you correctly.
WILKINS: You did! We have the Signer stock. Quite a coup really. When you think about it.
ROSALIND: But did you say Iâd be assisting you?
WILKINS: Yes!âŠAnd my doctoral student, Ray Gosling, will assist you.
GOSLING: Hello!
(He puts out his hand and ROSALIND ignores it.)
ROSALIND: ButâŠRandall told me Iâd be heading up the study. That Iâd be in charge of my own work here. Sure...