Kathryn Schaub (Erin Lauthner) and Irene Rudolf (Riley Webster) gossip as they paint watches for the U.S. Radium Corporation. The girls adapt a technique of licking the brushes to point the tip to draw in the numbers of a clock.
Radium Girls opens on Thursday, February 27th, at 7 PM. It follows the story of Grace Fryer, a woman in the 1920s, battling U.S. Radium Corporation in a court of law. Fryer and other women fight for the justice they deserve after years of grimy decisions causing them to ingest more and more radium, leading to their early deaths. Radium Girls plays for two weeks, Feburary 28th, March 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th all at 7 PM.