REVIEWED THIS WEEK: BLACKBIRD
Written by David Harrower. At Project Arts Centre, Dublin until March 3
Private desires become the subject of public scrutiny, the intricacies of intimate relationships are betrayed and the subtle strokes of a nascent love-affair become the first premonitions of its end in David Harrower’s Blackbird.
The play deals with the topic of sexual abuse - the violation of the innocence of childhood by the physical desire of an adult who should have known better.
Played out over a tense evening, after-hours in a factory ...
