Radium Girls at NEW ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL

"Radium Girls" is a play based on a true story about young women working in a factory in the 1920s who painted watch dials with radium-based paint, leading to severe health complications as they were instructed to "point" their brushes with their mouths, causing them to ingest the radioactive material; the play follows their fight against the company for compensation and to expose the dangers of radium exposure, highlighting themes of worker exploitation and the pursuit of justice against powerful corporations.