![]() When Jo's health starts to decline, Bessie starts to question if Radium is safe and discovers a veil of corporate lies. Adults are $12, and Student/Seniors (65+) are $10. Based on true events, sisters Bessie and Jo Cavallo paint dial watches at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. "Radium Girls" will be performed Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, at 7:00 PM in the Martin Marietta Performing Arts Theater. Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers The Radium Girls is filled with both triumph and tragedy. Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science. The Federal Government later relied on data from the Radium Girls cases to develop safety standards for radium and other radioactive materials for factory. The painting was done by women at three different factories, and the term now applies to the women working at the facilities: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917 one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s and a third facility in Waterbury. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical show deemed a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics. The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. ![]() Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the. ![]() In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage-until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Radium Girls is a shocking, heartbreaking story of corporate greed and denial and the strength of the human spirit in face of it. The Radium Girls actually believed they were getting healthier by working with the new wonder drug - the most expensive substance in the world at the time, costing the equivalent of 2.2 million. The Harrison High School Creative Arts Theatre is proud to present their spring production, "Radium Girls". ![]()
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