Show: Blackbird
Author: David Harrower
Director: Dean Schulze
Featuring: Eliot McCann, Laura Vertigan
Company: Blak Yak Theatre
Venue: Subiaco Arts Centre, Studio Space
When: Friday 20 November 2009

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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen...

We are past the halfway mark...only six performances left of Playlovers' RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL at Hackett Hall, Floreat. The show has been well-received by small but supportive performances...here's hoping that the numbers pick up towards the end of the season!

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In a little over 6 hours Upstart will be opening its second-ever production. The strangest thing for me is that I won't be acting in it.

Due to my commitments with Cry Havoc (which has since become one of the shows I'm most proud of being involved with) I stood aside from performance duties in 'Othello' and confined myself to promotion/FOH duties. And now here I am in unfamiliar territory watching the final dress rehearsals from the audience POV. It's definitely a different world on the other side of the stage.

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‘Blackbird’ by Scottish playwright David Harrower is a controversial and disturbing, award-winning play. A US Marine, Toby Studebaker, who abducted a 12-year-old British girl after grooming over the Internet, inspired the story. With some trepidation, this play was first ‘tried out’ at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, it was a huge success. The Blak Yak Theatre bravely brings performances of this one act play to the Subiaco Arts Centre Studio, 180 Hamersley Road, Subiaco. Shows start nightly at 7.30, until 5^th December.

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I've recently finished up with Cry Havoc, my two-act political thriller in The Blue Room Theatre. One of my friends came and saw the show, and while loving it a great deal she asked if for my next playscript I could write "something a bit more uplifting". I half-jokingly replied that uplifting isn't something I generally do. I like dark material. I enjoy putting my characters through emotional torture. In the three main dramatic works I've had staged (and this is spoiler territory, in case you're worried) I've killed a President and brought down his government in one play, shot one character dead and traumatised the other in a second, and revealed everyone was dead all along in the third. Happy uplifting endings is not what I do.

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