'Radium Girls' Come to Chatham High Stage
The play tells the story of a factory in Essex County in the early 20th century.
Lynn Polan, Chatham High School's theater director, told Chatham Patch in March 2011 that she wanted the chance to direct a production of "Radium Girls." This year, she's done it. The play by D.W. Gregory tells the story of five factory workers from Orange who sued their employer in a landmark court case which established the right of individual workers who contract occupational diseases to sue their employers. "There was a factory in New Jersey where they had girls painting glow-in-the-dark watches and clocks with radium-laced paint, and they all got sick and died from radiation poisoning," Polan said. The women were told the paint was harmless and ingested deadly amounts of radium by licking their paintbrushes to sharpen them. Some also …
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