REVIEW: Emotionally harrowing production deliberately leaves loose ends

Show: Blackbird
Posted on Nov 20, 2008 at 11:38 a.m. by LeeH

City Pages theater critic Quinton Skinner hails Pillsbury House Theatre's jawdropping production of David Harrower's Blackbird.

"What seems like a great idea in the middle of the night can notoriously swerve in the other direction come the cold light of day. In David Harrower's Blackbird, a ghastly mistake from a decade and a half ago arises like some beast from the deep, in a story that unfolds with painful intensity, unbearable compassion and comprehension, and a sense of loose ends that will never be properly tied."

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