The Mount Pleasant High School Theatre Department will present their One Act Play, “Radium Girls,” Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25 in the MPHS Auditorium. Performance time for both evenings is 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $2 for students and $4 for adults.

“Radium Girls” is set in 1926 when radium was a miracle cure and luminous watches the latest rage until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. The play tells the story of Grace Fryer, one dial painter and her effort campaign for justice for herself and the other dial painters. 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.

The MPHS production features Star Williams as Grace and Ja’Quancy Minter as Arthur. The cast includes Jacob Baker, Lysette Barajas, Patty Bazan, Thomas Collier, Rylie Hardison, Francisco Lopez, Itall Luna, Ethan Mays, Allison Phifer, Jesse Swafford and Ben Wright.  The play is directed by MPHS theatre Instructor Jaden Avance.