Synopsis
Blackout Songs
$12.99 Published by Nick Hern Books
1 Male 1 Female
A compassionate and unflinching study of love, addiction and memory
A chance encounter at an AA meeting and they're drawn to one another
Then later, once they're drinking again, they both have this almost-feeling that they might have met before – could even have been together, sometime in the past...
They should really get sober together and figure it all out
That would be a worthwhile project
Maybe they will
Just after one last drink...
Blackout Songs premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2022
REVIEWS
"heart-meltingly warm" ~ The Guardian
"Five Stars... A dark, witty, indispensable drama... saturated with a gut-wrenching sense of how far alcohol addiction can plunge people, but lit up by flashes of humour... amply confirms the promise of Joe White's debut Mayfly" ~Telegraph
"Brave and original writing, hard-edged and unsentimental one minute, heart-meltingly warm the next. A funny kind of romantic tragedy that becomes compulsive to watch" ~ Guardian
"Fascinating....engaging, compelling and powerful" ~ British Theatre Guide