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Una (Paula Arundell) and Ray (Peter Kowitz) had a cataclysmic relationship 15 years ago. It’s a relationship that has defined their lives. Ray has a new identity and wants to put the past behind. Una has thought of nothing else.
Now she returns to his workplace for a confrontation. A titanic struggle ensues.
David Harrower’s Blackbird asks very difficult questions:
When is love abuse? When is the victim the perpetrator? And can we ever
break free from the shackles of the past?
With remarkable sensitivity playwright David Harrower cuts through one
of society’s most unsettling taboos, leaving the audience to struggle
with the uneasy tension between love and abuse.
The smash-hit of the Edinburgh Festival, Blackbird won
the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and has had sell-out
seasons on the West End and Broadway. The Sunday Express called
Blackbird “a smash-hit! The most stimulating, provocative and gripping
night in town”, and the Sunday Telegraph said “Unmissable….this is a
modern tragedy, full of pity and terror”.
Brilliant, unnerving and controversial, Blackbird
explores our taboos and conceptions of love, abuse and that much-abused
neologism ‘closure’. In Ray and Una, Harrower has created two complex
and damaged individuals, full of rage, sweetness, fear and a strange,
disturbing affinity.
Blackbird is an unmissable powerhouse piece of theatre.
Una:
You left me alone...
You left me in love.
Sydney Theatre Company presents
Blackbird
By David Harrower
Cast Paula Arundell, Danielle Catanzariti, Peter Kowitz
Director Cate Blanchett
Set And Costume Design Ralph Myers
Lighting Design Nick Schlieper
Composer/Sound Designer Max Lyandvert
Venue: Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre Company
Previews: 15, 17, 18, 19 December at 8pm
Opening Night: 20 December 2007
Dates: 21 December – 16 February 2007
Times:
Monday 14, 21, 28 January; 4 & 11 February 2007 at 6:30pm;
Tuesday – Saturday at 8pm (except 25 December);
Sunday 30 December and 6 January at 5pm
Matinees: Wednesday matinee at 1pm, Saturday matinee at 2pm
Tickets: $73 / $60 concession Matinee $65/$54 concession
Bookings: (02) 9250 1777 / sydneytheatre.com.au
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