David Harrower’s Blackbird to Become Feature Film

The Olivier Award-winning work, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005 followed by a run at the Albery Theatre in London’s West End, is a drama that centers on the aftereffects of an illicit affair between a young woman and an older man. The show has had numerous productions, including ones at Manhattan Theatre Club and Australia’s Sydney Theatre Company, and it will be produced in July 2009 at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre, starring William L. Petersen.

Harrower’s stage credits also include the plays 365 and Knives in Hens and adaptations of Six Characters in Search of an Author, Ivanov, and The Good Woman of Szechuan. He is writing the adapted screenplay for the film White Male Heart, which is due to shoot in Spring 2009 and star Cillian Murphy.