Blackout Songs

by Joe White

Nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre

“Standing ovations at London theaters are drearily routine these days, but I experienced one a few weeks ago that felt genuinely impassioned. I’m thinking of the fervent audience response to a new two-character play...I can easily see international producers snapping up “Blackout Songs”...But the director Guy Jones’s production sets the bar high.”
New York Times

★★★★★ Telegraph

★★★★★ Reviews Hub

★★★★★ London Theatre Reviews

★★★★ The Guardian

★★★★ Financial Times

★★★★ iNews

★★★★ Express

★★★★ What’s on Stage

★★★★ Broadway World

★★★★ Ham and High

★★★★ Spy in the Stalls 

★★★★ London Theatre 1

“the livewire approach, accentuated by interludes of unpredictable movement, feels fresh, their co

-dependency in a pas de deux with the grip of the hard stuff.”
The Telegraph

“Guy Jones’s production crackles with edgy energy”
Financial Times

“Guy Jones’s production...is gripping and thought-provoking.”
The Theatre Times

“The production moves with kinetic fluidity thanks to Guy Jones' rapid but self-assured direction.”
Broadway World

“White and Jones...cleverly avoid showing us the lurid reality of drunkenness...the mayhem and the disorientation are stlyised and discrete.”
The Times

“The intelligent writing is skillfully directed by Guy Jones”
Ham and High

Hampstead Theatre 

Upstairs
8th April - 6th May 2023

Downstairs
4th November - 10th December 2022




Cast
Alex Austin and Rebecca Humphries


Director
Guy Jones

Designer
Anisha Fields

Lighting Designer
Christopher Nairne

Sound Designer and Composer
Holly Khan 

Movement Director
Iskandar R. Sharazuddin

Intimacy Director
Adelaide Waldrop