Tension key to play based on a true story
This is how Laura Lippman likes her theater:
"I like to lean forward and be tense," she explained.
It isn't surprising, then, that Lippman is directing David Harrower's "Blackbird," a play that will definitely make you lean forward and be tense.
It'll also give you food for thought and discussion.
"It taps into feelings of abandonment and feelings of loss," says Lippman, who is fairly new to the Old Pueblo but brings more than a decade of directing experience to Beowulf.
"Because one character understands what happens one way and the other character understands in a different way, when they finally stand in the same room together and hear the other side of the story, it's like piecing parts of a puzzle together."
Harrower is a hot Scottish playwright. He was little known before "Blackbird" snagged the coveted Olivier, London's version of the Tony, back in 2007. When it traveled across the Atlantic and opened in New York City, it became a darling of the critics.
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BEOWULF ALLEY THEATREElizabeth Leadon-Sonnenfelt and Art Almquist in Beowulf Alley Theatre's production of "Blackbird."
