AUDITIONS
Jan. 15 & 17 Wed or Fri at 3:30pm
Mammoth High School - Room TBA
RADIUM GIRLS
Synopsis
Radium Girls is D.W. Gregory’s gripping drama based on the true story of female laborers who were poisoned and killed by their factory’s radium-based paint. Radium Girls ranges from 1918 through the 1940’s, with the bulk of the narrative centered on events in New Jersey in the mid 1920’s.
Radium Girls fiercely examines the commercialization of science, the pursuit of both health and wealth, the power of the underdog, and the fierce injustice laborers in America have faced, and may even continue to face in the present.
The Women in the Factory
Grace Fryer: A top-notch dialpainter. She is 15 at the start of the play and 26 at its close.
Kathryn Schaub: Grace's friend. She is another dialpainter. Also 15 at the start of the play.
Irene Rudolph: Kathryn's cousin. She is 17 at the start of the play. Later, she is in her 20s.
Mrs. Alma MacNeil: The women's supervisor at the factory.
The Company Men
Dr. Von Sochocky: Founder of the U.S. Radium Corporation and inventor of the luminous paint.
Arthur Roeder: President of the U.S. Radium Corporation. 34 at the start of the play; 65 at its close.
Edward Markley: Counsel for the company.
C.B. "Charlie" Lee: Vice President; later President of the company.
Arthur Roeder: President of the U.S. Radium Corporation. 34 at the start of the play; 65 at its close.
Edward Markley: Counsel for the company.
C.B. "Charlie" Lee: Vice President; later President of the company.
Their Family and Friends
Tom Kreider: Grace's boyfriend. He is several years older than she.
Diane Roeder: Married to Arthur Roeder.
Harriett Roeder: Their daughter. She is 9 years old at first; later, she is in her 30s.
Anna Fryer: Grace's mother.
The Advocates
Katherine Wiley: The Executive Director of New Jersey Consumer's League
Raymond Berry: An attorney for the dialpainters.
The Scientists
Dr. Marie Curie: A two-time Nobel-prize winning scientist. She discovered radium.
Dr. Cecil Drinker: A Harvard industrial hygienist.
Dr. Harrison Martland: The county Medical Examiner.
Dr. Joseph Knef: A dentist.
Frederick Flinn, PhD: Columbia University, industrial hygienist.
The Press
Reporter (Jack Youngwood): A reporter for the Newark Ledger.
Sob Sister (Nancy Jane Harlan): A tabloid reporter for the New York Graphic.
The Witnesses
William J.A. Bailey: An entrepreneur; manufacturer of Radithor.
Mrs. Michaels: A consumer of Radithor.
Society Woman: Mrs. James (Cora) Middleton; a well-bred woman
Clerk: An overworked public employee
