2023 Season
These Shining Lives
Written by: Melanie Marnich
Dates: Oct 27-29, Nov 3-5, 10-12, 17-19
Fri/Sat: 7:30pm | Sun: 2pm
These Shining Lives, written by Melanie Marnich, is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company – a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois. It tells the moving story of 4 extraordinary women as they develop a strong bond of friendship while they work in a factory where they paint watches with radium powder without knowing that the work is so dangerous it will kill them. The play highlights the courageous women who choose not to be victims but to fight for justice as well as their very survival. Set in a time before workers’ safety held little concern for employers. The Radium Dial Company is one of the most egregious examples of a company that disregards all warnings and studies that show the work as highly toxic and dangerous for the women who paint their watches and made them rich. Melanie Marnichs’s moving play is an exploration of industrial neglect and an uplifting tribute to the courage and strength of the radium girls and the resilience of the human spirit.
Directed by Juli Bacon
These Shining Lives
Written by: Melanie Marnich
Dates: Oct 27-29, Nov 3-5, 10-12, 17-19
Fri/Sat: 7:30pm | Sun: 2pm
These Shining Lives, written by Melanie Marnich, is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company – a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois. It tells the moving story of 4 extraordinary women as they develop a strong bond of friendship while they work in a factory where they paint watches with radium powder without knowing that the work is so dangerous it will kill them. The play highlights the courageous women who choose not to be victims but to fight for justice as well as their very survival. Set in a time before workers’ safety held little concern for employers. The Radium Dial Company is one of the most egregious examples of a company that disregards all warnings and studies that show the work as highly toxic and dangerous for the women who paint their watches and made them rich. Melanie Marnichs’s moving play is an exploration of industrial neglect and an uplifting tribute to the courage and strength of the radium girls and the resilience of the human spirit.
Directed by Juli Bacon
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Season Sponsors
We are excited to welcome Vaulting Frogs Preschool as one of our 2023 season sponsors!
Thank you to the Sammamish Valley Grange for your support and for providing a location for our 2023 season!
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The Woodinville Rep is looking for a new space, or spaces, to perform our shows on a multi-year basis! If you know of space or a local business that would like to partner with us, we’d love to talk! Click below to email us or call Charley Blaine at 425-891-6785.
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