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<b><font size="4" color="#330099"><i>Our 89th Season . . .</i></font><font size="4"><br></font><br><u><font size="5" color="#330099">OPENING
OCTOBER 14 AT SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYERS</font></u><br><br><i><font size="5" color="#990000">Rapture,
Blister, Burn</font></i> by Gina Gionfriddo and directed by Patrick
White, opens Schenectady Civic Players’ 89th season Friday, October
14, and runs through Sunday, October 23 at their Playhouse, 12 South
Church Street, in Schenectady’s historic Stockade district.<br><br>A
2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama, Rapture, Blister, Burn
premiered off-Broadway in 2012 at NYC’s Playwrights Horizons Theater.
The five-character cast included Amy Brenneman of television’s
“Private Practice” and “Judging Amy”. <i><font color="#330099">The
New York Times called it an “intensely smart, immensely funny play.”</font></i><br><br>After
grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths. Catherine
builds a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen builds a home with
her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in opposite ways,
each woman covets the other’s life, commencing a dangerous game of
musical chairs. With searing insight and trademark wit, this comedy in
an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th-century
feminist ideals.<br><br><i><font color="#330099">“A thoroughly winning
comedy about the typography of the women’s movement – and the lives
that shaped it – while demonstrating the confidence to embrace
contradictions of all kinds.” – The Boston Globe.</font></i><br><br><font color="#330099">The
Civic Players cast features Cristine M. Loffredo (as Catherine), Sara
Paupini (as Gwen) Pat Brady (as Alice), Alexander Jones (as Don), and
Brigitta Giulianelli (as Avery).</font><br><br><font size="4" color="#990000"><i>Rapture,
Blister, Burn </i>runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday (October 14, 15,
16) and Wednesday through Sunday (October 19 through 23). Wednesday
and Thursday curtains are at 7:30 pm; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm;
and Sundays are matinees only at 2:30 pm.<br></font><br><font size="4" color="#990000">Tickets,
$20. Order on-line at www.civicplayers.org Or call the Playhouse
382-2081</font><br><br><br></b>
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