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AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER Pill and Daniels try to come to terms with a disastrous liaison in the emotionally wrenching Blackbird
Joan Marcus

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Opening Date: Apr 10, 2007; Lead Performance: Jeff Daniels; Writer: David Harrower; Director: Joe Mantello

A young woman (Alison Pill) and middle-aged man (Jeff Daniels) hash out the affair they had when she was 12 and he 40. Did she seduce him? Is he sexually perverse? Were they in love? Are they still? And who suffered — or deserved to suffer — more in the 15 years since? Dramas about pedophilia are shocking by nature, but don't confuse David Harrower's Blackbird with Law & Order: SVU. Pill and Daniels roar through each of the play's psychological turns with breakneck deliveries and merciless emotional accuracy: You can't catch your breath long enough for an easy gasp or cry. (Tickets: 212-581-1212) A-


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Posted Apr 20, 2007

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