These Shining Lives
University of California, Irvine - Little Theatre
Director: Sarah Butts Scenic Designer: Leah Ramillano Costume Designer: JoJo Siu Lighting Designer: Wesley Charles Chew Lighting Assistant: David Hernandez Sound Designer: Matthew Eckstein Photography: Paul Kennedy |
The play tells the story of four Radium Dial factory workers who became sick through the ingestion of radium while doing their work. Through the use of heightened poetry, lighting created a ‘romantic’ world for these women to live in, while at the same time, a world that was literally killing them with every stroke of the brush.
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