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Mill Girls

Winner of the 2000 Moss Hart Award for Best New England Production


Octavia, Hannah, and other girls are thrust into the American industrial revolution of the 1840s when they take on jobs in a New England mill.

As Irish immigration provides a wave of cheap labor to the mills, wage cuts and miserable working conditions become the norm--but the mill girls are determined to gain reasonable pay and conditions. With compelling characters and theatrical staging, the play brings history vividly to life.

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