![]() ![]() But the gaps here stand in for alcoholic amnesia and this lost memory brings contested realities as well as lacunae in their love story – a theme that is excellently blended into the play’s structure.īlackout Songs has much to say on mutual addiction: the pair’s compulsion to keep drinking is caught up with creativity for him, a rebellion against “normality” for her. These interludes mark breaks in their story so we only see moments in the relationship, similar to the non-linear staging of Nick Payne’s Constellations. ![]() What seems pretentious at first turns powerful, along with lighting by Christopher Nairne which pulsates with hedonistic excess and then tightens its focus around the couple like a visual embrace. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianĪnisha Fields’ set design has chairs against walls which are shifted in fiddly ways along with interludes of movement (directed by Iskandar R Sharazuddin) and music (sound design by Holly Khan).
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