Radium Girls
By D.W. Gregory
Radium Girls is a play that needs 9 or more performers (5 women, 4 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 9 or more performers
- Roles
- 5 women, 4 men
- Cast notes
- 4 to 5m., 5w., with doubling. May be expanded to 30 or more.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
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. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. 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 w
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