These Shining Lives
by Melanie Marnich

Name: These Shining Lives
Brand: Melanie Marnich
SKU: 9780822224488
Rating: 4.09 (372 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

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120 mins1930sFlexible Cast SizeUnit Set/Multiple SettingsPeriod Costumes

Synopsis

These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their roles working at the Radium Dial Company, 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.

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Press Reviews

"An initially comic and ultimately tragic look at how individual women find employment within a system more concerned with profit than safety."
— Variety

"Subtly stylized language and a sensibility that’s delicately oddball, even when probing troubling topics."
— Washington Post

"We leave the theater aching from the impact of this true tale, which only gains power from the artifice of its telling."
— Express Milwaukee

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Frances Also plays Reporter 2, an Official.	—	—	Also plays Reporter 2, an Official.
Charlotte Also plays Reporter 1.	—	—	Also plays Reporter 1.
Pearl Also plays Daughter, Judge 2.	female	—	Also plays Daughter, Judge 2.
Tom Donohue Her husband. Also plays Dr. Rowntree, Dr. Dalitsch.	female	—	Her husband. Also plays Dr. Rowntree, Dr. Dalitsch.
Mr. Reed Also plays Radio Announcer, Company Doctor, Son, Judge, Leonard Grossman. Everyone is in their mid to late twenties. Mr. Reed can be older. Doubling is possible.	male	—	Also plays Radio Announcer, Company Doctor, Son, Judge, Leonard Grossman. Everyone is in their mid to late twenties. Mr. Reed can be older. Doubling is possible.
Catherine Donohue Plays only herself.	—	—	Plays only herself.