Legacy of Light by Karen Zacarias

Setting: 1700s and the present 

Cast: 6 total (3F/3M), all any race/ethnicity

Two female scientists, living hundreds of years apart, explore the meaning of love, motherhood, family, art, and science in this contemporary comedy. Legacy of Light juxtaposes the story of Émilie du Châtelet, a mathematician, scientist, and lover of the great 18th-century philosopher Voltaire, who became unexpectedly pregnant at 42, and that of a 21st-century physicist desperately trying to conceive a child.