RADIUM GIRLS  

CALDERWOOD PAVILION 

BOSTON 2010

 

Direction by:

Elaine Vaan Hogue

Scenic Design:

Paul Tate dePoo III

Costume Design:

Erik Reagan Teague

Lighting Design:

Aaron Sherkow

 

The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey, around 1917. The women, who had been told the paint was harmless, ingested deadly amounts of radium by licking their paintbrushes to give them a fine point; some also painted their fingernails and teeth with the glowing substance.