“This year’s series is both a reaction to and a distraction from today’s times. Radium Girls tells a story of corporate and government scandal, yet with a bend toward justice.
Radium Girls | 7:30 pm | October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26, 2019
A hundred years ago, radium was a miracle cure used to fight cancer. It was quickly commercialized and used in products for consumers, including luminous watches that glowed in the dark. Radium Girls tells the story of the New Jersey factory girls who hand-painted the dials until they mysteriously became ill and started dying. Worker Gracie Jordan decides to sue the United States Radium Corporation, exposing radium’s impact on health and just how far a company will go to manipulate science. Radium Girls was written by D.W. Gregory.