HHM Performing Arts Theatre Arts Presents Radium Girls

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 with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Written with warmth and humor, and called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.

Featuring: Jazmin Castro as Grace with Erik Mostad, Julia Matthews, Brooklyn Walsh, Sharissa Gosse, Sophie Newman
Kate Healey, Molly MacEachern, Rebecca Winger, Chris Saunders, Riley Locke, Noah Facey, Emmett Cass, Molly Adey,
Kaitlyn Simms Elizabeth Yetman, Connor Fagan, Adaora Awolesi, Helena Panting
Direction: John Rao with Elizabeth Yetman