About the Show

An intimate two-hander tracing a turbulent decade of love, addiction, relapse, and recovery.

Blackout Songs charts a ten-year relationship between two people who meet in an AA meeting and become entwined in a cycle of passion, relapse, and renewal. Their connection evolves through moments of exhilaration and collapse as each contends with addiction, desire, and the shifting hope that love might hold them together.

The play centers its focus on the private world the pair build and dismantle over time, tracing how their bond endures—and fractures—under the weight of dependency. Their story unfolds through intertwined memories, confrontations, and confessions that reveal the complexity of loving someone whose struggles mirror your own.

Through its intimate structure, Blackout Songs examines a relationship shaped by longing, vulnerability, and the perilous search for solace in another person.

Critic Reviews (10)

"White’s script keeps you doubting both characters as well as yourself. Poignant lines are said years later as if for the first time, like a repeating chorus."
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“White’s script leaves a lacuna, which his director Rory McGregor renders with a jump cut of a black out.”
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"Blackout Songs is a fascinating attempt to re-create the experience not just of a night of heavy drinking, but of a life consumed by it.”
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"Like many a drunk, Blackout Songs isn't as captivating as it thinks it is."
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“The play sustains our interest thanks to the memorable characterizations and superb work by the two actors.”
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As co-dependents in love and in the bottle, Lee and Teague give bravura performances which remain high-powered throughout.
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Abbey Lee and Owen Teague hurl themselves into the outsize roles with a fearless abandon that is both impressive and numbingly one-note over the course of a very long 90 minutes
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"Joe White’s scintillating, Olivier-nominated American debut stars Abbey Lee and Owen Teague as two alcoholics who fall in and out of love, disappear for extended periods of time, and remember and forget significant parts of their toxic relationship."
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