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By Jessica Gable<\/p>\n

A buzz of high-energy conversation enveloped participants in the Goodman Theatre\u2019s Context event at Wicker Park\u2019s Geek Bar Beta on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Specialty drinks of all colors and sizes were poured and French fries and the bar\u2019s Awesome Sauce consumed with gusto. Faces of women, who mostly made up the crowd of several dozen, and men grew flushed with feeling as they geared up for an evening discussing the topic of the Goodman Theatre\u2019s current show Rapture, Blister, Burn<\/em>: feminism and its myriad incarnations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so deep and there were so many layers,\u201d said Shannon Downey, self-proclaimed geek and one of the evening\u2019s discussion leaders. \u201cI walked out of there and I didn\u2019t know what to do. I was like \u2018I sort of want to cry. I sort of want to punch someone. I sort of want to skip down the street. I don\u2019t know!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Downey and other panelists led discussions about specific topics assigned to individual tables. The topic at Downey\u2019s table of five was Women in Technology, Gaming and Geekdom. Other topics were #feminism, The Male Gaze Through the LGBTQ Lens, and Women in Comedy. Each person sat at two different tables of their choice throughout the evening.<\/p>\n

Rapture, Blister, Burn<\/em> by Gina Gionfriddo introduces the audience to four women with very different views on feminism, views that shift as the play progresses. First, the audience meets Gwen and Catherine- best friends who lost touch after graduate school and reunite 20 years later. Gwen dropped out of school to make a family with the boyfriend Catherine left behind when she moved to London and became a feminist scholar. Then there\u2019s Avery, Catherine\u2019s twenty-something student who identifies with the more inclusive focus of Post-Third Wave feminism, and Alice, Catherine\u2019s mother who grew up in an era when women were expected to be homemakers and dependent on men. As the women navigate the range of modern feminist ideology from Schlafly to Friedan, the audience can\u2019t help but do the same.<\/p>\n

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Avery, Catherine and Alice (Cassidy Slaughter-Mason, Jennifer Coombs, Mary Ann Thebus) toast at Rapture, Blister, Burn’s conclusion. (Liz Lauren\/Goodman Theatre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The cast of Rapture, Blister, Burn discuss the modern views of feminism in a scene from the play. (Liz Lauren\/Goodman Theatre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Though the turnout was predominantly female, a few men joined the discussion as fellow feminists. (Teresa M. Rende\/Goodman Theatre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Tables set up around Geek Bar Beta allowed discussions to go more in depth discussing topics covered by the play and those left out, like feminism in the LGBTQ community. (Teresa M. Rende\/Goodman Theatre)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n

\u201cIt is such a conversation provoker, such a thought provoker,\u201d said 23-year-old Goodman Theatre intern Nikki Veit. \u201cWe interns at the Goodman sat down for an entire lunch period discussing, debating, articulating, analyzing this play. I haven\u2019t seen a play recently that has had this much impact on my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veit, who identifies as gay, tried the Women in Comedy table and then transferred to the Male Gaze Through the LGBTQ Lens group. She argued vehemently that the play lacked relevance to modern feminists.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetty Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly\u2026they\u2019re so dated,\u201d she said. \u201cRight now, we\u2019re talking about inclusivity. Like, different races, different sexualities, different gender spectrum. I think that\u2019s the next step for feminism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebecca Kling, a transgender performance artist and educator, led the discussion at the Male Gaze table. She steered the conversation to topics not necessarily covered explicitly in the play. They included the power associated with men who ogle women and whether or not the gaze of gay men and women is or should be subject to the same scrutiny.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith each subsequent wave of feminism there\u2019s sort of been a fracturing,\u201d Kling said, \u201cbut at the same time an expansion of who\u2019s included.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feminism\u2019s primary advocates are no longer predominantly middle class, educated young white women, said Kling. She encouraged the women at the table to welcome Post-Third Wave.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be looking at just–in big air quotes–the idea of \u2018womanhood\u2019,\u201d Kling said. \u201cWe have to be thinking about race and age and ethnicity and religion and economic status and all of those other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cast of Rapture, Blister, Burn discuss the modern views of feminism in a scene from the play. (Liz Lauren\/Goodman Theatre)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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