"All the more so in the case of the characters in the British playwright Joe White's Blackout Songs, who can't remember any details of their first night together. These lovers, referred to as "Him" and "Her" in his script and played by Owen Teague and Abbey Lee, first encounter each other on the sidelines of an AA meeting, making forced conversation next to an urn of coffee, affecting the posture of people who believe they're above and in control of their addictions."
"He's in a neck brace; she's chicly shambolic in jeans and a large furry coat. They ditch the meeting, end up getting drinks instead, and then ... White's script leaves a lacuna, which his director Rory McGregor renders with a jump cut of a black out. The couple meets again a purposefully fuzzy period of time later, disagreeing on the hazy details."
A pair of lovers meet beside an AA meeting and cannot recall their first night together. They are known as Him and Her; he wears a neck brace and she is chicly shambolic. Their early encounter is purposely obscured by a blackout jump cut, and they reappear later disagreeing about hazy details. They fall into recurring benders, black out, and accumulate mutual reverence for a grand romantic fantasy. The script skims across their relationship, generating momentum but offering a sense of predictability. The narrative scrambles romantic-drama tropes to produce thrill while underscoring addiction's grim, ordinary consequences.
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