8 / 10
Scott Pask’s minimal set design serves the abstract narrative well, while Stacey Derosier’s lighting and Brian Hickey’s sound design and music are integral to the proceedings. Blackout Songs proves a bit repetitive at times and probably would benefit from some paring of its 95-minute running time. But there’s no denying that it packs a powerful punch.
5 / 10
While director Rory McGregor moves his cast nimbly around the wide wood-panel-lined stage that represents multiple locations in their on-again-off-again affair (designed by Scott Pask and lit by Stacey Derosier), he doesn’t bring much clarity to White’s challenging nonlinear script — which wallows in narrative confusion as it plunges both the audience and the characters into repeated bouts of alcoholic amnesia between some harrowing depictions of addiction at its worst.
Performances are underway for Olivier-nominated writer Joe White's U.S. premiere of Blackout Songs. Learn more about Blackout Songs and read the reviews here!
American audiences will be introduced to the two-time Olivier-nominated writer Joe White with the U.S. premiere of his Olivier-nominated play Blackout Songs.
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