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To Tower Theatre Company production of Blackbird, by David Harrower, Theatro Technis, London, 26th - 30th June 2012: “Blackbird premiered at the Kings Theatre, Edinburgh in 2005 and won the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for best new play. She’s 27, he’s 56, and they’ve had a brief affair – about 15 years earlier, when he was 41 and she was 12. They haven’t seen each other since Ray was sent to prison. Una has endured a lifetime of being “talked about, pointed at, stared at”, while Ray has done his time, changed his name, moved to a new town, and rebuilt his life. Now called Peter, he’s the manager of a medical-supplies manufacturing firm. Una, who’s found him after recognising him in a photograph in a magazine in her doctor’s office, confronts him in the littered lunchroom of his workplace. Why? To accuse him? Humiliate him? Attack him? Hurt him? Kill him? Or to rekindle their relationship? “A modern tragedy, full of pity and terror. Certainties dissolve.” (Sunday Telegraph) “Harrower’s drama, positively explodes with unresolved, and possibly irresolvable, concerns … his brooding ambiguity and his dry, resonating poetry culminates in one of the most daring new plays of recent years.” (Sunday Herald) ”