Blackbird

As the action of David Harrower's „Blackbird" is coming to an end, both protagonists take off their clothes and remain as naked as two persons can be. But I did not say completely naked. „Blackbird" is a play, which speaks about a sexual intercourse that is being transformed and paralyzed.
In the process that is both inevitable and painful, a defensive shield is revealed, which was built carefully by the man and the woman, for the 15 years in which they had not seen each other.
The viewer is in the position to watch the lowest depths of their souls. Thus exposed and trembling, they are totally vulnerable, and the viewer feels he should look aside. On the other hand, how to resist watching in their direction? The theatrical and emotional nakedness presented in the "Blackbird" won the Lawrence Olivier award in London.
„Blackbird" grabbed this award from the more famous contemporary playwrights. In difference from numerous plays in this season, which decompose the world with intellectual pretensions, „Blackbird" is the theatre which has only the basic elements: a man, a woman, a venue in the present, and the face-to-face confrontation over the events from the distant past.
Neither of the characters is particularly keen, but what comes to the surface as the truth is less the matter of fact but more the matter of feeling, because that truth is brought to light in spite of everything.
„Blackbird" is the remembrance of something, which is by any legal definition, sexual abuse. The word "abuse" is mentioned in the play, but it is a suffocating factor for both characters.
Therefore, as the majority of the used words, it is inadequate.