Blackbird

"A man and his younger girlfriend drive to a beach town and have sex. He craves a smoke afterward; she craves candy. He climbs into his car and disappears. Abandoned in the remote town, she searches for him on foot until it becomes late, much later than she is accustomed to. ‘Late' for her is 10 p.m. That is because she is 12 years old. Mercifully, these events take place 15 years before the confrontation that comprises David Harrower's bruising . . . drama Blackbird . . . But those intervening years have done little to quash the agonies residing within the two broken figures on display. Mr. Harrower nudges his story toward any number of familiar paths—the revenge drama, the big-moment apologia, the cathartic reconciliation. But Blackbird invariably veers away from these resolutions in favor of far more complicated emotions."—Eric Grode, The New York Sun

"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
"Blackbird is a drama that mixes guilt, memory and desire into the most potent of theatrical cocktails."—Daily Telegraph

"Neither condoning nor condemning, Harrower has produced a fine, thought-provoking piece on a taboo subject."—Independent