Rapture, Blister, Burn

Women are running for president. Men are exfoliating. It’s all jumbled: you can’t read the signs. Can any woman have it all? Catherine is a rock-star academic, while Gwen built a home with a husband and children. Unfulfilled in opposite ways, each woman covets the other’s life, and a dangerous game begins as each tries to claim the other’s territory. Gina Gionfriddo dissects modern gender politics in this breathtakingly witty and virtuosic comedy. Traversing the experiences of women across the generations, this play is a hugely entertaining exploration of a new style of feminism, ripe for the twenty-first century.

“…intensely smart, immensely funny…What’s exciting about [Gionfriddo’s] writing here is the multiplicity of the ideas it engages. Heady with sharp-witted dialogue about the particularities of women’s experience, Rapture more largely illuminates how hard it can be to forge both a satisfying career and a fulfilling personal life in an era that seems to demand superhuman achievement from everyone.”
—The New York Times

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Rapture, Blister, Burn runs approximately 2 hours & 15 minutes with one intermission.