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'The Little Years' Play Merges Science, Stereotypes & Theater

 Stella Cole and Kevin Purcell join us to talk about a play that runs this weekend at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Called 'The Little Years' it explores the trials of a female math prodigy. Following her over the course of over 40 years, from the time she was a teen during the 1950s, the Canadian play explores what happens when a brilliant young mind goes to relative waste: 

Click here for more information about the play which runs this weekend - Friday night through Sunday afternoon, and to purchase tickets.

Rachel Otwell of the Illinois Times is a former NPR Illinois reporter.