Spooner High School to Present Radium Girls as Senior Play
The Spooner High School Senior Class is pleased to announce its senior class play, Radium Girls, which will be presented on October 26 at 1pm and 7 pm and again on October 27 at 1 pm in the SHS auditorium. Seating will be by general admission with tickets sold 45 minutes prior to curtain time at $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for students and seniors (60+).
“I am really excited to produce this play” said Bob Thornley, the show’s director; I was looking for something that would challenge my talented cast and be a moving crowd pleaser for our adult and student audiences,” Radium Girls is set in New Jersey in the 19-teens and 1920s and is based on the true story of teenage factory workers who seek justice after they are sickened in their workplace by radium-laced paint. It is a fast-moving theatrical ensemble piece about greed, worker’s rights, the environment, and mostly courage, and it has much to teach us about the problems of today, about big business versus human and environmental well-being” said Thornley.
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, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece involving the girls, their friends, co-workers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates, and myriad interested bystanders. 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.
Spooner High School seniors involved in the production are Max Anderson, Mariah Bader, Hannah Chisnell, Rebecca Cottrell, Alex Daniels, Camryn Dezek, Spence Hoellen, Travis Key, Gabrielle Kidder, Kiara Martin, Meaghan Melendez, Katie Peterson, Ariana Richards, Kara Romportl, Tiffany Romportl, Jordan Schafer, Karson Scherer, Gabrielle Schroeder, Santana Seifert, Austin Stoner, Gatlin Swan, McKenzie Townson, Paige Weiberg, and James Zaloudek.
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