Review: RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN by David Gordon
I've seen a great many "issue plays" in the five years that I've been reviewing theater, with mixed results. Far too often, these works, while written with the best of intentions, end up as prolonged discourses either for or against the issue, with characters who are more like mouthpieces than they are real people. Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn at Playwrights Horizons is the rare exception, a fie…