Preview of 'Radium Girls' by Shakesperience Productions

Radium Girls

Waterbury, CT – July 3, 2014 Shakesperience Productions is performing Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory at the Mattatuck Museum on Friday, July 18 at 8:00 pm, Saturday, July 19 at 8:00 pm. and Sunday, July 20 at 3:00 pm. Directed by Shakesperience Productions Artistic Director Emily Mattina, the production includes a pre-performance discussion on Saturday, July 19 at 7:00 pm. and a post-performance discussion on Sunday, July 20 at 4:30 pm.

Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she battles a mysterious illness, the U.S. Radium Corporation, and her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Performance Tickets are $15 per adult and $10 for seniors (65 and older) and all children under 12. To purchase tickets call (203) 753-0381, ext. 130 or visit mattatuckmuseum/events.

Supported in part by CT. Humanities and the CT Community Foundation, the performances are presented in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institute’s traveling exhibition The Way We Worked, on view through August 3 at the Mattatuck Museum .

Shakesperience Productions, Inc. is a professional theatre company located in downtown Waterbury , Connecticut and touring throughout the Northeast to an audience of adults and students alike with School and Public Performance Tours, Acting Intensives, Residencies, Shakespeare in Library Park , and the Spring and Fall Festivals of Theatre.  For more information, check us out on the web at www.shakesperience.org or find us on Facebook.

Visit mattatuckmuseum.org or call (203) 753-0381, ext.130 for more information about all of the museum’s adult, family, and youth programs, special events and exhibitions. The Mattatuck Museum is operated with support from the Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development, CT Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Free parking is located behind the building on Park Place