7 / 10
Blackout Songs also delivers moments of brightness. Lee is particularly magnetic, playing Her with a sharp blend of wit and vulnerability. The gaps between memories/scenes feel cavernous, though the physical transitions themselves are smart and sleek, thanks in large part to lighting design by Stacey DeRosier and staging by director Rory McGregor and movement consultant Sarah Parker.
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.
