Blackbird
by David Harrower
(at the Bainbridge Library)
February 19, 20 SATURDAY & SUNDAY 7:30 pm
Blackbird
By David Harrower
Directed by Rozzella Kolbegger
Shocking, funny, tragic, sad, thrilling, bleak — none of these words conveys the unique nature of David Harrower’s “Blackbird,” a play about sex, love and loss.
Winner of the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
WARNING- THIS PLAY FRANKLY EXPLORES A CONTROVERSIAL SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP- AND IS INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
CAST: Tim Tully, Jocelyn Maher
THE PLAY: Two people who once had a passionate affair meet again fifteen years later. Ray is confronted with his past when Una arrives unannounced at his office. Guilt, rage and raw emotions run high as they recollect their relationship when she was twelve and he was forty. Without any moral judgments, the play never shies away from the brutal shattering truth of the abandoned and unconventional love. Ray, fifty-six, after years in prison and subsequent hardships, has a new identity and has made a new life for himself, thinking that he could no longer be found. Una, twenty-seven, has thought of nothing else, and on finding a photo of him, sets out to find Ray. She is looking for answers not vengeance. Nevertheless, the consequences are shattering.
"The show is a fascinating look into a psychological relationship. It’s provocative and deeply disturbing. And it sticks with you."— The Kansas City Star
"The gifted David Harrower's intense BLACKBIRD promises to be the most powerful drama of the season…masterly, mesmerizing…extraordinary…a miracle." —NY Times. "Four stars! This haunting, powerful, incendiary work is the sort of daring theater far too absent from our stages these days." —NY Post. "A provocative, shocking and worthwhile new play. Playwright David Harrower is definitely a name to watch." —NY Daily News. "A fascinating and unnerving ninety-minute cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and sexual intrigue, with genuine theatricality and undeniable shock value." —Associated Press. "It's a wonderfully engaging intellectual conflagration with a very slow burn…a dark and beguiling play which stays with you…a remarkable play." —CurtainUp. "An Ibsenite inquiry into the past…psychological insight, creation of characters and nice sociological detail…Poignant." —Evening Standard (London).