The cast of “Radium Girls” includes Elena Crawford as Grace Fryer, Trislynn Lind as Kathryn Schaub, Hailey Hershberger as Irene Rudolph, David Broadhurst as Tom Kreider, Ethan Betances as Arthur Roeder, Trevor Ott as Edward Markley, Edward Robison as Charlie Lee, Reagan Kauffman as Dr. It is sad but also it’s really important and it’s good information to just know and be aware of,” Morris said. Our lighting designer hasn’t used them before either so it’s really cool to get to use those things. We’re using a bunch of new theater technology I haven’t even used before. “I think it’s going to be really, really cool. The cast will wear masks backstage but not on the stage. They can be purchased at the box office or online through the Warsaw Performing Arts Facebook page masks are required for the audience, but social distancing and capacity limits are not.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and senior citizens. It’s going to be really cool visually, I think,” Morris said. We’re using some black light and glow-in-the-dark paint. The other reason is it’s just really, really cool – the way it flows and has all these opportunities for tech stuff. She ended up having 70 audition, “which was super exciting and great” because “Radium Girls” allows the cast to be as few as nine or as many as 30. In choosing the play, Morris said she was reading through “many, many plays” and wanted to be able to accommodate the number of students who auditioned, whether that was five or a hundred.
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There’s a movie on NetFlix called “Radium Girls” now with the same story but different characters, she said. “It’s one of the top 10 most produced plays in the U.S. Morris said it’s become really popular in the theater world in the last year. She watches her two best friends die from it and eventually she also gets really sick from it as well.” The play, she said, “is about our main character Grace and her fight against the factory. Then they discovered radium was really toxic and it started to kill all the girls working in the factory. They put it in water and sold it and people used it as cancer treatments. And they are using radium paint for the watches because it glows in the dark for the men in the military so they can see at night.”īack in 1920, Morris said they thought radium was a miracle cure for everything. It is the story of these young women who are working in a watch factory called American Radium.
This weekend, the fall play is “Radium Girls” by D.W. It was based on Saar’s own son Benjamin, who was born with congenital hemophilia. It was about a family and their young boy who was born with hemophilia and through his process with the doctor, he contracted AIDS. In October, the WCHS Select Theatre performed the play “The Yellow Boat” by David Saar. It’s kind of important for me to have my students learn about these things and then also teach the community,” said Director Melany Morris. And if you choose not to tell the important stories, then I feel it’s kind of on me. “Theater is a vehicle for telling stories and telling important stories. TIMES UNION REPORTS – For a second show in a row, the Warsaw Community High School Theatre Department is performing a show based on a true story.
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