Dawn Steele as Una and Robert Daws as Ray give remarkable performances.

This is a challenging, engaging production, beautifully staged.
British Theatre Guide


Spellbinding tale of forbidden Love.

Found myself once again blown away by the play’s power and daring.

Robert Daws and Dawn Steele are sensational.
Daily Telegraph

A dance of death to the music of love and betrayal.
Whats On Stage

The acting is clear and strong.
The Sunday Times

...the new production packs a heftier punch with its unshowy intensity than Peter Stein's arty, more self-conscious original staging. Lethally well-paced, Grindley's production holds the audience mesmerised for the hundred minutes of unbroken playing time and firmly establishes Blackbird as a modern classic.
The Independent


Robert Daws and Dawn Steele give powerful performances.
Daily Mail


Deeply disturbing, entirely absorbing.
The Times

Still has the power to take your breath away.

Leaves one deeply moved.
The Guardian

It's an extraordinary intense and powerful drama.
Wiltshire Gazette & Herald


Mesmerises an audience into utter silence…a terrific piece of performance theatre.
Bristol Evening Post


The play demands big performances and gets them from Robert Daws and Dawn Steele.
Birmingham Post

Absorbing play…the emotional zig-zagging of the script is intelligent and intriguing.
Lincolnshire Echo

It's plain to see why this show is such an award winning success

It is intense, extraordinary and un-missable.
Market Rasen Mail - Lincoln

...it is memorably intense: one-act, relentless, gut-wrenching in the entirely non-hyperbolic sense. I've never seen so many theatre-goers sitting bolt upright - braced even.
The Oxford Times

Compelling theatre…I would not have missed it for anything.
Bath Chronicle


Essential viewing.
Wiltshire Times

Two powerhouse performances from Dawn Steele and Robert Daws ensure that the audience is immediately drawn into the encounter, forced to watch as raw emotions surface and more questions are asked than answered. David Harrower's script is extraordinary, every word made to count, creating a situation so credible one might have been a voyeur - a stunning example of art concealing art.

There is no easy conclusion, no happy ending to Blackbird. This is a play to challenge preconceptions, drama that, in the course of an intense 90 minutes, constantly challenges one's view of events.
Hereford Times

Explosive, emotional stuff, physically and passionately played … Director David Grindley gets the best from his two actors. A night of compelling theatre.
East Anglian Daily Times

...a powerful piece of theatre which once seen is unlikely to be forgotten for quite some time.
Cambridge Evening News