NEW YORK TIMES:
"“Blackbird” is theater at its most elemental: one man, one woman, one set and a head-to-head confrontation, about events long past, that occurs in real time. Its characters are not well spoken or even particularly insightful. What emerges as truth — which is less a matter of facts than of feeling — occurs despite themselves."
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NEW YORK POST:
"Manhattan Theatre Club has presented so many safe, middlebrow plays in recent years that its current production, David Harrower's "Blackbird," comes as a revelation. This incendiary work about the confrontation between a middle-age man and the young woman he molested as a child years earlier is the sort of daring theater far too absent from our stages these days."
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VARIETY:
"While it ultimately doesn't achieve the psychological clarity to fully illuminate the moral morass it uncovers, "Blackbird" is a dark, dangerous love story in which the past casts an unhealthy shadow."
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THEATERMANIA:
"The production drags, which is surprising, since Mantello usually runs such a tight ship. Moreover, the play too often comes across as rather heavy-handed. "
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NEWSDAY:
""Blackbird" is less a stylish power play than a straightforward catch-up about the details that changed two lives beyond recognition."
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TIME OUT NY:
"The play’s many twists, and especially its final turn of the screw, raise provocative questions about where romance ends and abuse begins, and just how many crows it might take to make a murder. "
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