A two-character play is in develop as a feature film adaptation of “Blackbird,” with playwright David Harrower aboard to script the drama about the confrontation between a middle-aged man and the then-underage girl with whom he had a relationship years earlier.
“Blackbird” premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005, and then transferred to London’s West End, where as a well-received run won the 2007 Olivier Award for new play. Then, that same year it was brought to Off Broadway by Manhattan Theater Club in a staging directed by Joe Mantello and starring Jeff Daniels, whom I think is a wonderful actor, and Alison Pill.
Variety offers some of tidbits about the play; such as in 2007, Cate Blanchett directed the play’s Australian premiere for the Sydney Theater Company, while next summer, a production top billing “CSI” star William L. Petersen is scheduled to play Chicago’s Victory Gardens.
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