Blackbird | |
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Written by | David Harrower |
Characters | Una Spencer Ray Brooks |
Date premiered | 2005 |
Place premiered | Edinburgh Festival Edinburgh, Scotland |
Original language | English |
Subject | An uneasy reunion between a woman and a middle-aged man fifteen years after he sexually abused her when she was twelve |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | Office break room |
Blackbird is a 2005 play written by Scottish playwright David Harrower. It was inspired in part by the crimes of sex offender Toby Studebaker, and depicts a young woman meeting a middle-aged man fifteen years after being sexually abused by him when she was twelve.
David Harrower's Blackbird is not to be confused with the Adam Rapp play of the same name.