![]() ![]() Those women’s stories serve as source material in D.W. As doctors slowly began to discover radium’s devastating harm, five women in New Jersey sued their employers but reached a settlement outside the court in 1928. In the factories, laborers who painted were instructed to finely point their brushes by molding the bristles with their mouths, but this process ultimately poisoned the laborers themselves. In fact, Madame Curie, the internationally adored physicist and chemist, convinced the world of radium’s healing powers. ![]() The public didn’t know of radium’s toxic nature. The Radium Girls were factory workers who painted dials with radium-based paint and mysteriously started dying. Radium Girls is based on a true and tragic story that defined American labor history in the 1920’s. Given the play’s flexible cast size, packed narrative, and incisive themes, Radium Girls has been widely produced by high school and college drama departments. She was most notably finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Production Grant for the work. ![]() Gregory received numerous awards focused on new works upon Radium Girls’ release. It was first produced at Playwrights’ Theatre of New Jersey in 2000, and has since been consistently produced both in the United States and internationally. Gregory’s Radium Girls is a play in two acts. ![]()
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