Wilbury Theatre Group Presents Pulitzer Prize Finalist RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN, Now thru 4/4

The Wilbury Theatre Group is proud to present the Rhode Island premiere of Obie Award winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo's searing new comedy Rapture, Blister, Burn, tonight, March 19-April 4 directed by Susie Schutt. A smash Off-Broadway hit and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Kennedy Theatre Prize, Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn confronts a variety of post-feminist topics from the ongoing career vs. family debate, male dominance in business and relationships, feminist implications of torture movies, and even takes on society's acceptance and consumption of pornography.

Described by the author as an unintentional homage to Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, with a title inspired by the band Hole's single, "Use Once and Destroy", Rapture, Blister, Burn is a wickedly perceptive and surprisingly relevant take on cross-generational feminism that explores the evolving attitudes of women towards career, marriage and family - and the consequence of choice.

Rapture, Blister, Burn runs March 19-April 4 at The Wilbury Theatre Group, 393 Broad Street, Providence RI. Tickets are $20-$25; preview performances just $15. Call 401-400-7100 or order online at thewilburygroup.org.

After grad school, Catherine pursued a career as a feminist academic who soon became a literary rockstar and favorite of the pundit circuit, while her college friend Gwen decided to build a home with her husband and children. Catherine has returned home to care for her ailing mother Alice and reconnects with Gwen who is married to her old college flame Don. Both are dabbling in regret and attempt to explore the road not taken, with hilarious and surprising results. Gionfriddo mixes love, emotion, envy, and academics in a play the New York Daily News called "a smart, funny, and lightingpaced look at feminism."

"Gina Gionfriddo may have started out to write a play about internet pornography," says Wilbury Group Artistic Director Josh Short, "but she ended up with a story less about porn than the unresolved issues of the feminist movement in America. She's delivered an offbeat, funny, unbelievably clever and political domestic comedy that our audiences will appreciate for bringing a discussion of what it means to be a modern feminist to the forefront again. And in the extremely capable hands of Susie and this stellar cast we've assembled, it promises to give our audiences plenty to talk about."