Most of us are down with Socrates’ well-worn assertion that the unexamined life just ain’t worth living. Playwright Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn posits a very different question—what ...
At its most basic, Gina Gionfriddo’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn” is a heady, often humorous examination of feminism from various points of view. Opening Aurora Theatre Company’s 23rd season, it initially ...
SF Weekly: This Fantastic Equality: Aurora Theatre's “Rapture, Blister, Burn” Poses the Feminist Questions Everyone's Still Afraid to Ask
It's hard to find a play about feminism that would be controversial in Berkeley, California. But Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo, which this week begins previews at the Aurora Theatre ...
This Fantastic Equality: Aurora Theatre's “Rapture, Blister, Burn” Poses the Feminist Questions Everyone's Still Afraid to Ask
The Chicago Maroon: Women Rapture, Blister, Burn following their unsatisfying post-collegiate decades
Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, a 2013 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, opens discontentedly and contemplating midlife morass at the Goodman Theatre’s Albert venue. Sparsely elegant ...
Defending Phyllis Schlafly and exploring the intellectual and emotional complexities of porn and horror films are just some of the topics amusingly explored in Gina Gionfriddo’s “Rapture, Blister, ...
“What is the rapture?” There are many Christians who believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ will be in two phases. First, He will come for believers, both living and dead, in the “rapture” (read 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17). In this view, the rapture—which is the transformation and catching up of all Christians, dead or alive, to meet Christ in the air—will be secret, for it ...