Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Compelling drama lifts City Theatre's 'Blackbird'
Post Gazette: "Plays have long been the way artists express their concerns with the difficulties of being human. City Theatre's 'Blackbird' is one such example. While as imperfect as its troubled characters, this play involves the audience in surprisingly intimate ways by putting a human, often sympathetic face on one of life's most uncomfortable realities -- pedophilia."
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That was certainly a harrowing way to end an article; "you have been warned". The more I read about this play, and how outright uncomfortable every reviewer is discussing the show's message and the actor's progression through the run, the more I want to see it. I'm not entirely sure about the scenic choice (really one of the only things the reviewer mentioned in any detail). I understand the commonplace is what makes theatre astonishing, but why something so cut and dry?
Again, I want to see the show and really get to the heart of all of this uproar.
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