BLACKBIRD
May 2-May 27, 2007
Steven Culp as Ray in the play "Blackbird"
"By casting Steven Culp as Ray, ACT's production also contributes to
our dilemma about guilt and innocence. Culp is handsome, clean-cut,
personable an actor whose long list of film and TV credits includes
appearances on n "Desperate Housewives."
Marin Independent Journal
From the American Conservatory Theater A.C.T website:
"Blackbird"
2007 Olivier Award Winner for Best New Play
by David Harrower
Directed by Loretta Greco
Blackbird is a powerful production, that explores the outer limits of morality, of sexual desire,
and of the impact of the past on the present.
"David Harrower's tense and controversial play deals with the aftermath of an affair which ended when Ray
set out to buy a packet of cigarettes and never returned. Fifteen years later, Ray has a whole new life,
including a new identity, while Una has spent the time obsessively searching for a resolution. As Una
confronts him about the true nature of their past, what emerges is a complex portrait of a relationship
that blurs the boundaries between lust, love, sexual obsession and something far more sinister. Blackbird
is uncompromising honest, surprising tender, and riveting with tension that will leave you hanging on
every word, every motion, and every ominous silence."
"A riveting study in sexual obsession that leaves
one both shaken and stirred." -
The Guardian (London)
"Blackbird is a drama that mixes guilt, memory,
and desire into the most potent of theatrical
cocktails . . . a knockout show."
Daily Telegraph
"Brave and intelligent . . . an evening of great
theatre."
Evening Standard (London)
Insidebayarea.com
San Francisco Chronicle
Playbill.com
Contracostatimes.com