Tim McNeil thought directing Adam Rapp's Blackbird would drive him cuckoo -- in a good way. He wrestled over how to make the experience of the two-hander intimate enough. The results will op…
Music that's a century old really shouldn't seem terrifyingly contemporary to audiences today. At the same time, all music should sound fresh when it's performed. The ensemble Eighth Blackbi…
While "two losers in love" is popular with modern playwrights, Blackbird may be the bleakest example of the genre around. The Barrelhouse Theatre production of Adam Rapp's play offers an…
Theatre Royal, York; and touringSex between a 12-year-old girl and a fortysomething man. This is the subject of David Harrower's 2005 play, explored through a dialogue between the pair meeti…
Theatre Royal, YorkDavid Harrower's play takes place in the filthy recreation room of an anonymous industrial unit. Middle manager Ray is being held to account by a young woman among the det…
The reason you should see "Blackbird" is for the amazing performance Sam Anderson gives as Ray—reacting to accusations of the unthinkable acts of which Ray is guilty ... Also at Rogue Mach…
Sam Anderson and Corryn Cummins discuss finding the humanity within their characters in David Harrower's one-act psychodrama Blackbird at Rogue Machine. He plays Ray, who abused her characte…
In Scottish playwright David Harrower's taut psychodrama "Blackbird," an adult woman confronts the man who sexually abused her when she was 12 years old.
LEARNING TO FLY WITH BROKEN WINGS “Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these broken wings and learn to fly/All your life/You were only waiting for this moment to arise.”Ã…
Opened May 2, 2007 at American Conservatory Theater ACT ruffles feathers with controversial Blackbird drama two [1/2] stars Provocative David Harrower's Blackbird, now at San Francisco's Ame…
Steven Culp, whom you might recognize from his stint as the late Rex Van De Kamp, husband of Martha Stewart-wannabe Brie Van De Kamp on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," doesn't want me to tell …
