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As part of the ‘Little Gem’ project, we continue with David Harrower’s ‘Blackbird’. The play deals with issues such as, depression, mental health and relationship breakdowns. It highlights issues that lots of people face today
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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 now 56, after years in prison has a new identity and has made a new life for himself, thinking that he could no longer be found. Una, 27, 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.
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** Harrower’s drama positively explodes with unresolved, and possibly irresolvable, concerns . . . His brooding ambiguity and his dry, resonating poetry culminate in one of the most daring new plays of recent years" ** Sunday Herald
**"Neither condoning nor condemning, Harrower has produced a fine, thought-provoking piece on a taboo subject”** Independent
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