Three Shining Lives

Winneshiek Playhouse, the area’s longest running, all volunteer amateur theater, will be presenting: These Shining Lives on September 24th, September 25th, and October 1st at 7:30 p.m. and October 2nd at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

These Shining Lives, a play by Melanie Marnich, revolves around the real-life circumstances of women in the 1920s who worked in Ottawa, IL, at a factory painting watch faces with glowing radium-rich paint. While the characters and company in These Shining Lives are fictitious, the story of the Radium Girls and the toxic, deadly levels of radium poisoning of over 4,000 f...