October 23, 2010
\nAdelaide
\nTheatre
\nBRIEF<\/p>\n
Blackbird
\nby David Harrower
\nFlying Penguin Productions
\nand Adelaide Festival Centre inSpace Program
\nSpace Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
\nOctober 22. Tickets $19.95 – $34.
\nBookings at BASS telephone 131246 or bass.net.au
\nUntil October 30.
\nAward-winning UK playwright David Harrower is well-named – because his 2005 two-hander Blackbird is certainly a harrowing experience. Una (Ksenja Logos), a young woman in her late 20s arrives late in the afternoon at the workplace of Peter (Terence Crawford), a man in his fifties. It is a confrontation, an interrogation, a reckoning \u2013 painfully reviving memories of an illicit sexual relationship when she was twelve and he was forty. His name was Ray then and he was imprisoned six years for the offence.
\nDirector David Mealor painstakingly guides the two excellent performers through a series of often unexpected, sometimes (perhaps) implausible twists of emotion and response. Mary Moore\u2019s d\u00e9cor is artfully commonplace and Quentin Grant\u2019s music is sparingly plangent. Blackbird is a difficult, but unforgettable, ninety minutes in the theatre.
\nMurray Bramwell
\nThe Australian, October 25, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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