Rapture, Blister, Burn

Can any woman have it all?

After university Catherine and Gwen chose opposite paths: Catherine built a career as a rock-star academic, while Gwen built a home with a husband and children

Decades later, 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

Sparks fly and the age-old question arises ...

What do women really want?

Gina Gionfriddo dissects modern gender politics in this breathtakingly witty and virtuoso comedy, set in a small New England college town

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

Rapture, Blister, Burn was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, USA, where it premièred

It received its UK première at the Hampstead Theatre, London, January 2014

Gina Gionfriddo is an American writer who has won an Obie Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Prize for Emerging Playwrights, and a Guggenheim Fellowship