Blackbird (Nicosia)

Scottish playwright David Harrower has bravely chosen to address and dissect a taboo subject that even his characters dare not name.

Una and Ray, are birds with broken wings—psychologically crippled by an episode that left both their lives in tatters. She's 27, he's 56, and they've had a brief affair - about 15 years earlier, when he was 40 and she was 12. They haven't seen each other since Ray was sent to prison for statutory rape ("blackbird" is British slang for "jailbird"). Una has endured a lifetime of being "talked about, pointed at, stared at," while Ray has done his time, changed his name, moved to a new city, and rebuilt his life. Now called Peter, he's the manager of a medical-supplies manufacturing firm. Una, who's found him after stumbling across his photo in a trade magazine in her doctor's office, has him cornered in the littered lunchroom of his workplace. But why? To accuse him? Humiliate him? Attack him? Hurt him? Kill him? Or to rekindle the relationship?

Versus Theater
Director: Sotos Stavrakis
Actors: Eftihios Poulaidis and Maria Michael

(in Greek)