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Linking Law & the Arts Series
An Evening of Law and Theater
Presented by the University of Maryland School of Law
and CENTERSTAGE
Thursday, April 24, 2008
6 p.m.>
“Women’s Work”
Pre-Theater Bistro Dinner and Discussion
8 p.m.
These Shining Lives
World Premiere Performance
CENTERSTAGE
700 N. Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Dinner and discussion $25 per person.
School of Law reduced price performance tickets $25.
Purchase theater and dinner tickets online,
or call the Office of Institutional Advancement at 410-706-2070.
Already have theater tickets? Purchase tickets for the dinner and discussion only.
About These Shining Lives
The Twenties are roaring and the women of the Radium Dial Company have found steady work in comfortable conditions
at extraordinary pay. Over time, though, their apparent good fortune gives way to a crippling reality. With tremendous dignity and integrity, four fiercely determined friends organize and fight back against corporate deceit and criminal cowardice.
View the Thurgood Marshall Law Library's resources on the play and the discussion.
Before the premiere, enjoy a bistro-style dinner with wine as a panel of experts presents “Women’s Work.” Ranging from the characters in the play to contemporary cases like Johnson Controls, this discussion will address the development of occupational medicine from the 1920s until today, the legal system’s evolving eff orts to adequately protect workers’ health, and the exploitation of and discrimination against women workers.
Panelists will include:
- Taunya Lovell Banks, JD
Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence
University of Maryland School of Law - Harry S. Johnson ’79
Partner, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston - Melanie Marnich
Award-winning playwright of These Shining Lives - Melissa A. McDiarmid, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Director, Occupational Health Program
University of Maryland School of Medicine
The discussion and dinner are funded in part by a generous grant from the France-Merrick Foundation to the University of Maryland School of Law’s Linking Law & the Arts series.
CENTERSTAGE’s production of These Shining Lives has been generously supported by Whiteford, Taylor & Preston.
