Radium Girls, a theatre adaptation of a book by Kate H. Moore, was performed by the BHS theatre department in December of 2024. The story began in the mid 1920's with three girls in need of jobs. They found jobs in a dial painting factory. At the factory, the girls would point the paintbrush by using their lips; in this way, they ingested radium, which was found in the paint left on the brushes. They began to get sick, with bruises on their cheeks and necks. The company that employed them didn't want people to know the radium was radioactive and poisonous. They therefore hired fake doctors to tell the girls that they had syphilis, a different disease from the one they had. However, this lie was soon exposed when some girls began coughing up blood. Eventually, things got so bad that when the doctor checked some of them, their jaws would fall off into the doctor's hand. The story follows a girl named Grace Fryer, along with other girls at the dial painting factory, who tell their story and expose the company. BHS student Addison Rodger, who played character Irene Rudolf in the play, loved that in the theatre community anyone could ask for anything that they wanted and no one would make them feel badly about it.
"I love how the community feels like a family," Addison remarked.  Addison enjoyed the play because "we were depicting injustices and brought history to light". Although the tale has now long ended, hopefully, it's lessons will never be forgotten.