Blackout Songs

A compassionate and unflinching study of love, addiction and memory, Joe White’s play Blackout Songs careers through the chaotic lives of a couple as they crash through binges, regrets, recovery and relapse.

‘You told me you loved me, once. You said you carried me. You remember that? You still carry me? Or did you drop me, somewhere along the line?’

A chance encounter at an AA meeting drew them to one another. Years spent falling in and out of each others lives, veering from hedonism to hope, excess to abstinence, their love takes on mythical proportions. They should
really get sober together and figure it all out. Maybe they will. Just after one last drink …