Blackbird - Softcover

Rapp, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881452491 ISBN 13: 9780881452495

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

It's Christmas Eve: a Desert Storm veteran with a herniated disk and a 19-year-old runaway heroin addict share the holiday in a filthy, rundown squat on New York's Canal Street. This unusual love story is grimly compelling, mixing gritty honesty with remarkable generosity and compassion, striking a delicate balance between the sweet and difficult moments in human interaction. "... a terrifically impressive British debut for new U S playwright Adam Rapp. Froggy and Baylis are two wrecked drifters in a New York squat ... BLACKBIRD could, in the hands of a lesser dramatist, be a crude mix of in-your-face grunge and sentimentality ... actually, the squalor here is both appalling and cryingly funny and Rapp has a brilliant ear for talk." -The Independent "There is a strange tenderness in Rapp's writing that marks him out as one to watch. Rapp has genuine Gorky-esque talent and loves his characters as all-consumingly as they do each other." -The Guardian

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881452491
• ISBN 13: 9780881452495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72