{"id":1213,"date":"2014-06-04T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T11:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:36:50","slug":"aurora-theatre-company-to-present-rapture-blister-burn-829-928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/aurora-theatre-company-to-present-rapture-blister-burn-829-928\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Theatre Company to Present RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN, 8\/29-9\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #302f2f;\">Aurora Theatre Company opens its 23rd season with the Bay Area Premiere of RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN (August 29-September 28). A finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, this sharp, witty comedy examines the pursuit of happiness in the wake of 20th century feminist ideals.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Desdemona-Chiang\/\">Desdemona Chiang<\/a>\u00a0(The Hundred Flowers Project) makes her Aurora directing debut with this unflinching look at modern gender politics, featuring\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Gabriel-Marin\/\">Gabriel Marin<\/a>\u00a0(This Is How It Goes), Rebecca Schweitzer (A Delicate Balance, The First Grade),\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Marilee-Talkington\/\">Marilee Talkington<\/a>(Salomania), Lilian Bogovich, and Nicole Javie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #302f2f;\">Can any woman have it all? After graduate school, Catherine and Gwen chose different paths. Catherine built a career as a rock star academic and media darling, writing books linking Internet pornography with 9\/11, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other&#8217;s life. When Catherine returns home to look after her ailing mother, a risky game of musical chairs begins as three generations of women struggle with feminism&#8217;s foibles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #302f2f;\">A finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN premiered at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Playwrights-Horizons\/\">Playwrights Horizons<\/a>\u00a0in 2012. Called &#8220;An intensely smart, immensely funny new play&#8221; by The New York Times and hailed as Gionfriddo&#8217;s &#8220;most gleefully heedless and hilariously uncalculated foray into the un-politically-correct thus far&#8221; by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/New-York-Magazine\/\">New York Magazine<\/a>, this sharp, witty comedy examines the pursuit of happiness in the wake of 20th century feminist ideals.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Desdemona-Chiang\/\">Desdemona Chiang<\/a>\u00a0(The Hundred Flowers Project) makes her Aurora directing debut with this unflinching look at modern gender politics, featuring\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Gabriel-Marin\/\">Gabriel Marin<\/a>\u00a0(This Is How It Goes), Rebecca Schweitzer (A Delicate Balance, The First Grade),\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Marilee-Talkington\/\">Marilee Talkington<\/a>\u00a0(Salomania), Lilian Bogovich, and Nicole Javier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #302f2f;\">For tickets (Previews $35; Regular Performances $32-50; Limited Opening Night Seating $60) the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b22023;\" href=\"http:\/\/auroratheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">auroratheatre.org<\/a>. Half-off tickets for Under 35, student, and group discounts available.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/san-francisco\/article\/Aurora-Theatre-Company-to-Present-RAPTURE-BLISTER-BURN-829-928-20140604<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Theatre Company opens its 23rd season with the Bay Area Premiere of RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN (August 29-September 28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73,8,74],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aurora-theatre-company","tag-broadway-world","tag-rapture-blister-burn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}