Rapture, Blister, Burn
By Gina Gionfriddo
Playwrights Horizons, Geffen Playhouse
Kellie Overbey, Beth Dixon, Virginia Kull, Lee Tergesen and Amy Brenneman.
After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths.
Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other’s life, commencing a dangerous game of musical chairs – the prize being Gwen’s husband.
With searing insight and trademark wit, Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy is an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th century feminist ideals.