These Shining Lives

Workshopped during the 2006-2007 First Look series, Melanie Marnich’s These Shining Lives makes its World Premiere as part of CENTERSTAGE’s 2007-2008 season. Four young women find independence and friendship in their work as radium dial painters during the Roaring Twenties, but it may end up costing them more than they imagined. Marnich’s re-creation of this forgotten story brings history to life with shimmering clarity.