Mitch and Murray Productions is very proud to present our next show, “Rapture, Blister, Burn” by Gina Gionfriddo, playing November 11th – 28th in our usual cozy confines at Studio 16! Directed by Aaron Craven, starring Moya O’Connell, Robert Moloney, Lori Triolo, Anna Hagan and Courtney Shields.

We’re excited to present another piece of razor sharp writing from playwright Gina Gionfriddo, who penned our 2013 hit production of “Becky Shaw”. “Rapture” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

THE STORY: 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, this comedy is an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th-century feminist ideals.

“Intensely smart, immensely funny…What’s exciting about Gionfriddo’s writing here is the multiplicity of the ideas it engages. Heady with sharp-witted dialogue about the particularities of women’s experience (there’s a joke about pornography and Google maps—believe it or not—that’s worth the ticket price alone), RAPTURE more largely illuminates how hard it can be to forge both a satisfying career and a fulfilling personal life in an era that seems to demand superhuman achievement from everyone.” — NY Times.

"Mitch and Murray Productions is a force to be reckoned with." - Jerry Wasserman, Vancouver Plays