Review: David Harrower’s intense, difficult ‘Blackbird’ is now taking place in an actual cramped, drab break room
- Posted on November 4, 2025
- By Chicago Tribune
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Review: David Harrower’s intense, difficult ‘Blackbird’ is now taking place in an actual cramped, drab break room

“Blackbird” reunites a man and the woman he abused when she was 12, some 15 years later. It does not make excuses for sexual abuse, even if it explores the depths of human complexity.