But the gaps here stand in for alcoholic amnesia and this lost memory brings contested realities as well as lacunae in their love story – a theme that is excellently blended into the play’s structure.īlackout Songs has much to say on mutual addiction: the pair’s compulsion to keep drinking is caught up with creativity for him, a rebellion against “normality” for her. These interludes mark breaks in their story so we only see moments in the relationship, similar to the non-linear staging of Nick Payne’s Constellations. What seems pretentious at first turns powerful, along with lighting by Christopher Nairne which pulsates with hedonistic excess and then tightens its focus around the couple like a visual embrace. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianĪnisha Fields’ set design has chairs against walls which are shifted in fiddly ways along with interludes of movement (directed by Iskandar R Sharazuddin) and music (sound design by Holly Khan). Fall down drunk … Alex Austin in Blackout Songs.
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