Playwright Gina Gionfriddo originally sat down to write a play about pornography. Instead she gave us Rapture, Blister, Burn, a work that explores the gamut of feminist responses to pornography but seems at a loss when it comes to human beings. We watch women across three generations of the feminist movement search for answers to their unhappiness, only to seem just as dazed and confused in the end as when they began.
But the play doesn’t skimp on funny, with much of that coming from Catherine’s mom, Alice (played with Betty White-like charm by Mary Ann Thebus), and constantly cursing 21-year-old babysitter Avery (Cassidy Slaughter-Mason).
Through 2/22: Wed-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 and 7:30 PM, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-443-3800, goodmantheatre.org, $25-$81.
