“We’re trying to put an emphasis on the students and what they bring to the performance.” It’s heavy stuff and difficult stuff.”įuller clarified that the play is not related to the Netflix show of the same name, and she added the play will be focused on student performances instead of technical production or sets. I’m really proud of them and what they’ve accomplished. “It’s really enthralling to watch students that you’ve known to play one kind of part or to have this sort of presence on stage and help guide them towards a completely different performance,” Fuller said. We talked about how we can represent these stories and honor them through our performance.”įuller said she’s enjoyed seeing the students try more dramatic material and play more serious roles. “It’s a great story because it tells both sides, from the girls’ point of view as they are dying off and from the company and the men who were just as eager about this health sensation not believing it. “For the past few years BV has put on a lot of comedic shows and plays, and just like an athlete with muscles, the actors and actresses need to be able to stretch certain muscles in their acting,” Fuller said. The play opens next month but cast and crew have been busy for weeks rehearsing and preparing to perform the show, which centers around individuals in the 1920s who believed radium was a miracle cure, without understanding any of the dangers of radiation.ĭirector Hannah Fuller said the play is a dramatization of true events, and she added the show is darker and more dramatic than previous performances at Buckeye Valley. Rehearsals are underway at Buckeye Valley High School for the upcoming dramatic production of “Radium Girls.” Sloan Foundation.Buckeye Valley High School Drama Club Director Hannah Fuller gives stage directions to Sarah Church, a senior, and Emrich Buck, a junior, Wednesday afternoon during a rehearsal for “Radium Girls,” which opens next month. Hosted by the Tribeca Film Institute and the Alfred P. Their story reflects the strong history of women taking the lead in social reform addressing issues around industrialization, science, consumer health, and institutional corruption. Betsy Southerland in a discussion about the film and how the early organization of the women's movement empowered the Radium Girls to speak out. Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler co-direct a standout film that explores what it takes to piece together the small elements of wrongdoing in order to understand the scope of a larger injustice and, ultimately, fight against the system, when life's odds are stacked against you.Īfter the premiere screening: please join filmmakers Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler along with former EPA official Dr. Radium Girls is a celebration of everyday women finding their strength in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Bessie fights not only for her sister, but also for the rest of the women around her she becomes a powerful advocate as she risks everything to stand up to the corporation that provides her family's livelihood. When Jo becomes ill, a larger, darker truth begins to emerge: She is not the first girl in the radium factory to become unwell.

Based on true events of the late ’20s, teenage sisters Bessie and Jo dream of faraway places while they paint glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the American Radium Factory in New Jersey.

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