Blackout Songs
87%
87%
(1 Rating)
Positive
100%
Mixed
0%
Negative
0%
Members say
Profound, Funny, Intense, Thought-provoking, Intelligent

About the Show

Channel 4 Playwriting Award winner Joe White's play about addiction and love at first sight.

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Critic Reviews (8)

All That Dazzles (UK)
April 17th, 2023

" 'Blackout Songs' is a show that truly takes you on a journey. Complex and clever, its use of foreshadowing ends up being thought-provoking with a resolution so powerful, it leaves you questioning everything you had seen in the run up to it."
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The London Evening Standard
November 11th, 2022
For a previous production

"The writing is intelligent, the performances strong. But the characters have little external life and no reliable inner existence. This makes the play suffocating. "
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The Guardian (UK)
November 14th, 2022
For a previous production

"This is brave and original writing, hard-edged and unsentimental one minute, heart-meltingly warm the next. A funny kind of romantic tragedy that becomes compulsive to watch."
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The Telegraph (UK)
November 11th, 2022
For a previous production

"Though the material is saturated with a gut-wrenching sense of how far alcohol addiction can plunge people, it’s lit up by flashes of humour – partly the drink talking but also indicative of a wild spirit of living in the present."
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The Times (UK)
November 11th, 2022
For a previous production

"A bleak exercise in self-deception, then; yet what gives momentum to Guy Jones’s production are the hypnotic performances."
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The Stage (UK)
November 14th, 2022
For a previous production

"At its best, the writing is arresting: there’s a savage hilarity to the dialogue, which is as sharp and jagged as smashed glass. And however well we know this story’s taste, it has a bitter kick to it."
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Time Out London
November 15th, 2022
For a previous production

"White’s games with memory and perception are the most exciting thing about this play, so it’s a shame that he ultimately abandons them in favour of a more straightforwardly tragic ending, one that this play's 95-minute running time takes a little too long to arrive at."
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WhatsOnStage
November 11th, 2022
For a previous production

"This is a dark, witty yet truthful production with solid, captivating performances by Humphries and Austin. It's just a shame that we're not let in or feel like we can care about these two individuals until the final moments."
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