"...a terrifically impressive British debut for new U S 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

   "There is a strange tenderness in Rapp's writing that marks him out as one to watch.
   Rapp has genuine Gorky-esque talent and loves his characters as all-consumingly as they do each other."
The Guardian