Rolling Die
  Presents

BLACKBIRD

 by Adam Rapp
 directed by Todd Hunter

  with Rob Scullin & Tana Sirois

November 3 - 13
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8:00pm
Sunday 7:00pm 
Matinee 3:00pm, Sunday, November 13

Christmas Eve.  A rented room on Canal Street, New York City.  Baylis is a disabled Desert Storm veteran and ex-junkie. Froggy is a teen heroin addict stricken with Hepatitis.  A setting that could hardly be considered a bleaker snapshot of the human condition.  However, out of  this scenario evolves novelist/playwright Adam Rapp's first love story.  Alternatively tragic and funny, hopeful and horrifying, Rapp's Blackbird takes audiences where they fear to tread and shows them beauty in unexpected places.

"...a terrifically impressive British debut for new US playwright Adam Rapp.  Froggy and Baylis are two wrecked drifters in a New York squat...Blackbird could, in the hands of a lesser dramatist, be a crude mix of in-your-face grunge and sentimentality...actually the squalor here is both appalling and cryingly funny and Rapp has a brilliant ear for talk." - The Independent, a U.K. based periodical.

Blackbird has opened to controversy in Chicago and New York City.  Rolling Die Productions presents Blackbird at the Players' Ring for a limited two-week run.  See it and make your own judgment.

   Contains strong adult situations and language.
   Not recommended for children.

    Left: Tana Sirois as Froggy