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Harrower's 'Blackbird' gets big-screen treatment
Published 8/21/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
Variety says Jean Doumanian Prods. is developing a big-screen adaptation of David Harrower's play "Blackbird," the story of a middle-aged man who's confronted by the then-underage girl he once had an affair with. "When I saw 'Blackbird' onstage, I was really struck by the raw, emotional intensity of David Harrower's characters and their gripping story," Doumanian told Variety. "Blackbird" debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005, and later moved to London's West End. The play made it all the way to an Off Broadway staging directed by Joe Mantello and starring Jeff Daniels (pictured above) and Alison ...

Ben Affleck Unable to ‘Extract’ Himself From New Mike Judge Movie
Published 8/21/2008 at Vulture
... Sings in Dead of Night: David Harrower will adapt his awesome play Blackbird into a feature for Jean Doumanian Productions. Blackbird, which ran Off Broadway with Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill, follows a woman in her twenties who shows up in an older man's office, years after they had an underage affair that he tried to hide by moving and changing his name to something other than R. Kelly. [Variety] ...

'Blackbird' flies to theaters
Published 8/21/2008 by supernatural66 (noreply@blogger.com) at Movies - Spoilers
... of an older man with whom she was involved during her early teens, years after he has relocated and changed his name in order to distance himself from the past. Harrower is also penning the screenplay for "White Male Heart," scheduled to shoot next spring starring Cillian Murphy. His other works for the stage include "Knives in Hens" and adaptations of Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author," Chekhov's "Ivanov" and Brecht's "The Good Soul of Szechuan." Source: Variety ...