But Rays gloomy face is only half of the story.
In other words, rape though that word is never mentioned inBlackbird.
Harrower doesnt absolve the perpetrator.
Credit: Brigitte Lacombe
In fact, the play includes graphic, cringe-inducing descriptions of Ray and Unas sexual escapades.
The play itself, however, for all its explicitness of language, is somewhat unadventurous in scope.
The material is self-evidently dark but the presentation is unrelentingly glum and lifeless.
Williams and Daniels are more than up to the challenge of going down the plays very dark road.
That my mind even went there is a testament to the plays dangerous pull.B
