Radium Girls

"Radium Girls may speak to our collective capacity for denial. But it also celebrates our individual courage." -The Daily Record

New Jersey, mid 1920s. Business is booming at the United States Radium Corporation. The company’s ability to meet the growing demand for painting luminescent dials onto watches is music to owner Arthur Roeder’s ears – and why wouldn’t it be with pioneering physicist Marie Curie encouraging radium into the mainstream?

Meanwhile on the factory floor, it’s a different story. Painters Grace, Irene and Kathryn are noticing disturbing changes in the women working alongside them. Deaths are hastily explained away; but media interest is building and soon enough, many injustices are uncovered.

What unfolds is a fast-paced and shocking exploration into the workers behind a historical sensation, which impacted labor rights and health physics – but at what cost? Written with warmth, humor and dignity, Radium Girls is an unflinching tribute to the women racing against corporate greed and denial, and the strength of the human spirit in face of it.

Run Time is approx 2.5-hrs including a 15-min Intermission.

Rated PG. It is recommended for 10+. Themes of injury and death. Reference to disturbing effects of radiation poisoning.

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