IF YOU GOWhat: "These Shining Lives."When: 7:30 p.m. today, 2 p.m. Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Sunday.Where: St. Andrews Center, 1918 Union Ave.Admission: $5; free to Chattanooga State faculty, staff and students with ID.Phone: 697-3246.
Graduating students of Chattanooga State's Professional Actor Training Program will present "These Shining Lives" at Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga in Highland Park this weekend.
Written by Melanie Marnich, the play is directed by Jeffrey Parker and stars Fiona Battersby, Daniel Pound, Ryne Williams, Morgan Price, Jackie Fields and Sonibert Wood.
Each spring, the graduates of the program at Chattanooga State Community College present full-length plays as their final project. The students will also present "All This and Moonlight," a romantic comedy by Charles Johnson next weekend, April 27-29.
"These Shining Lives," set in the 1920s, focuses on the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day. The women paint the watch faces with radium for the Radium Dial Watch Co.
It is a story of survival as the women refuse to allow the company, which took their health, to steal their spirits.