The set-up for Gina Gionfriddo's often intoxicating "Rapture, Blister, Burn," which opened Aurora Theatre's season Thursday, may sound at first like an old-fashioned midlife-crisis comedy as sex farce. Catherine is a media superstar feminist scholar, dubbed on some talk shows as "the hot doomsday chick" for her writings on apocalyptic horror films and porn. Jolted by her mother Alice's heart attack, Catherine has returned to her New England college town home to take care of her. Nicole Javier's Avery, their college student babysitter, is the fresh, not to mention caustic breeze of youth, challenging - and judging - her elders as she copes with some bracing mating and sex-role problems of her own. Romantic complications, occupational choices and plot twists intermingle with feminist history, the evolution of women's roles in horror films and the intermingling ideas of Betty Friedan, Nancy Friday, Schlafly, Rousseau and Dr. Phil.
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