However, this wasn't the case in the early 20th century when radium paint was used for many household objects without a second thought. That is until factory workers exposed to the radium paint ...

In the 1920s when radium paint was introduced into the manufacture of clock dials in a New Jersey factory, the dangers of the newly developed material were still to be discovered.

The play opens with Grace and her coworkers, dressed in drab sepia tones, painting with the neon glowing radium paint used to illuminate watch faces in the 1900s. The girls begin playfully ...