McKendree Theatre: These Shining Lives
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 03/03/2024
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Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 10:00 am
Friday, March 1, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Tickets are available at: https://mckendree.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1933
Tickets are $5 each
Groups larger than 10 can recieve a reduced rate.
Produced by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying, it’s true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits—or endanger the lives of those who come after them.
Based on the true story of Catherine Donohue and the women who painted watch faces for the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois, in the 1920s. Their employer assured them that the radium they were using was completely safe, even after many of them developed serious health issues. Their successful lawsuit became a cornerstone in the fight for workers’ safety standards nationwide.
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