Blackbird
From: Wednesday, 18th January 2012
To: Saturday, 21 January 2012
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Our Review:
19 January 2012
I always enjoy covering the new plays in the Library Theatre’s re:play series and Blackbird is another good example.
Written and performed by talented Lucia Cox, it is a thought-provoking play about kidnap. It is said that the kidnapped latch on emotionally to their kidnappers and this is the case in this compact play lasting just an hour.
Sitting in her drab room which is effectively a cell, Cox paints a picture of the kidnapper and Blackbird, the girl under his spell. Both characters have well pronounced Southern accents but, more importantly, Cox captures their differences in realistic ways.
Her voice completely changes when she conveys Charlie who rescued her from drowning and now keeps her for himself. In one sense, he is ruthless yet, in another, he, too, is a victim.
You find yourself sympathetic to Blackbird’s plight yet horrified at the same time. OK,...
Creative
Lucia Cox (Author)
House of Orphans (Company)
Sarah Meadows (Director)
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