COMPASS PRODUCTIONS

All of the talent, none of the typecasting.

Compass Productions strives to cast strictly based on talent, hard work, and a good attitude, leaving the outdated notion of typecasting far behind. We are on a mission to create professional-level theatre with a community-minded approach, reflecting every member of society on stage.

Radium Girls

May 8th & 9th @ 7:30pm

May 15th & 16th @ 7:30pm

May 17th @ 2:30pm

8700 SW Sweek Dr, Tualatin, OR 97062

Compass Productions is proud to bring "Radium Girls" to The Tualatin Heritage Center May 8th and 9th and May 15th-17th.

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece for 9 to 10 actors, who play more than 30 parts—friends, co-workers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates, and myriad interested bystanders. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.

CAST

GRACE FRYER Claire Johanson-Muller

KATHRYN/OTHERS Emelia Corazza

IRENE/OTHERS Georgie Burgess

SOB SISTER/OTHERS Charlotte Allegra

MRS. ROEDER/OTHERS Shanon Keehn

LEE/OTHERS Virginia Kincaid

MARKLEY/OTHERS Colleen Carroll

ARTHUR ROEDER Thomas McAulay

MISS WILEY/OTHERS Sara Fieken

*MAY 8TH AND 9TH*

TOM KREIDER Daniel Rhovan