UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play at The VORTEX
Dates: (5/27/2022 - 6/11/2022 )
The VORTEX |
Trouble Puppet Theatre Compay
2307 Manor Rd
Austin,TX 78722
Phone: 5124785282
Tickets: $15-37
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An original historical play by Connor Hopkins, telling the story of Americas WWI-era Radium GirlsPresented by Trouble Puppet Theater CompanyUsing extensive shadow puppetry and its signature table top puppets, Trouble Puppet adds to its list of historical and labor themed plays (The Jungle, The Bomb in Haymarket Square, Crapstall Street Boys, and The Gunpowder Plot: or, How I Became A Catholic Suicide Bomber) with this tale of female workers manufacturing luminous timepieces and navigational instruments using the newly discovered natural wonder, radium.As American workers in the 21st century again turn to unions in a pitched battle between oligarchy and the rights of citizens, Trouble Puppet looks back to one of the tragic episodes that led to the legal establishment of Workers Rights, in a struggle often led by women in the face of the added assault of misogyny and sex discrimination.In the early twentieth century the United States saw the first World War, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. Science and technology discovered and created marvels including radium, implementing them for wartime advantage and peacetime profit. In the pursuit of such rapid, sweeping development, workers often became collateral damage in the great American Industrial Experiment. Women in particular were treated as a resource to which industry bore no responsibility. In many cases, women were the indomitable leaders who fought back against corporate impunity. The case of the Radium Girls is a story of shocking criminal negligence and the perseverance of women against a misogynistic system.UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play is part of Trouble Puppets continuing mission to use the art of puppetry to promote messages of social and economic justice. May 27 - June 11 at The VORTEX.
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