Blackout Songs London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (1)
See it if you want something different, a good combination of funny moments and deep, intense portrayal of emotion and human nature.
Don't see it if you want something light.
Critic Reviews (8)
" '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 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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"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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"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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"A bleak exercise in self-deception, then; yet what gives momentum to Guy Jones’s production are the hypnotic performances."
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"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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"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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"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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