Blackout is full of darkly comic truth
The dark depths of addiction will be examined in a new play at the Macrobert.
Blackout is a shattering new production which tells the real life stories of alcoholics and their rocky road through recovery.
Written by Mark Jeary and directed by Paul Brotherston, the show is scripted entirely from interviews with recovering addicts – including the writer – and is the honest, brutal, uplifting and often darkly comic truth.
Originally produced to critical acclaim in 2014, Blackout is touring again.
But this time as a new production with an updated script, new interviews, new director, and new creative team.
Based on dozens of interviews conducted by writer Mark Jeary with fellow recovering alcoholics – all with different experiences of addiction and of recovery – the production aims to present a range of experiences related to alcohol addiction.
Meet the woman who finds herself urinating off the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, the man who nearly burns down a stranger’s kitchen and the mother who almost beats her son to death in a drunken rage.
Far from a social issues piece of theatre, Blackout is a hard hitting and strikingly staged piece with relevance to everyone in our society.
Blackout takes place at the Macrobert on Tuesday May 17 at 7.30pm.