In her new play, Rapture, Blister, Burn, playwright Gina Gionfriddo tackles the eternal question of what women really want
Bio: Alexis Soloski is a drama critic for The Village Voice and a member of the OBIE Awards Committee and the New York Drama Critics Circle. Her writing appears frequently in the New York Times, The Guardian, American Theater, and Theater. She hold a post-doctoral lectureship in Literature Humanities at Columbia University.
When politely confronted with the evidence that a new Off-Broadway play and an episode for Netflix’s upcoming series “House of Cards” might not exactly constitute taking it easy, Gionfriddo demurred. Of Rapture, she said that she went to the first rehearsals and then dropped away until tech. To write the TV script, which helped her keep her health insurance, she said she did require full time childcare, but only for a month. Her caregivers of choice: “Unemployed actresses. My baby loves them so much. I have a bunch of them. When they get auditions I can call another one.” More
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on May 29th, 2012 4:12pm
