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Word For Word Presents:
“Marie Curie, So Honorable Woman” by Lydia Davis
Monday, August 10, 2015 at 7:00PM

Z Below
470 Florida Street
San Francisco, CA 94110


Off the Page staged readings are the first step in developing a Word for Word production—taking a short story from the page to the stage. Come see the very first steps of our process, and, after the reading, let us know what you think!

At the border of parody and translation, “Marie Curie, So Honorable Woman”, came about as Davis was translating a biography of Marie Curie. Composed of sentences “…so sentimental and nonsensical that they were,” she says, “too good to waste.” She was interested “in the idea that a story written very badly could also be very moving.”

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