Blackbird, the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for the Best New Play, is a brilliantly written, powerful and provocative two-hander about the reunion of a middle-aged man and a woman, with whom he had a sexual relationship when she was twelve years old. The man was sent to jail and on his release assumed a new identity and began rebuilding his life. Fifteen years have passed. She has thought of nothing else and on discovering a photo of him in a trade magazine, she sets out to find him, with shattering consequences.

Critics

"This is an extraordinary, no-hold-barred drama that both chills and thrills."

 — The Daily Telegraph UK

"The Best productions of the year came from contemporary English-language drama."

"In Theatre du Pif’s staging of David Harrower’s powerful Blackbird Bonni Chan Lai-chu delivered a strong performance."

 — South China Morning Post, Dec 2007