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Blackbird

David Harrower · 2005 CE · Play · English · Contemporary

A young woman tracks down the man who abused her when she was twelve and he was in his forties, and confronts him in the rubbish-strewn break room of his workplace. Fifteen years on, each remembers the affair differently and neither can settle on its name. Premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005; Harrower is Scottish and the play is filed under English.

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