New Room Theatre

Meet the woman who finds herself urinating off the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, the man who nearly burns down a stranger’s kitchen, the mother who almost beats her son to death in a drunken rage....

'My first drink seemed to unlock something. I threw up, went home, woke up with a stinking hangover the next morning and thought, that was
fantastic, when are we doing it again?'

'Blackout is an honest, brutal and often hilarious insight into alcoholism and recovery, scripted entirely from interviews with recovering? alcoholics, including the writer, and staged by New Room Theatre in a visceral piece of physically charged theatre. Blackout comes to The Hope Theatre following a critically acclaimed run in Edinburgh.

'Stories of euphoria, hedonism, recklessness, and violence come thick and fast, shaken and stirred. Never less than dynamic' (The Scotsman).