The play was originally written for the national theater, who started a project to create a series of plays, along side young people who where on the front line of issues making headlines in newspapers currently. young people charity's and local playwrights got together and teamed up with teenagers who had compelling stories.
the playwright, Davey Anderson, was put in touch with a 15 year old boy who had been charged with assault, arson and attempted murder, but the boy had luckily been let off with only a probation period, instead of a jail sentence. Anderson interviewed the boy several times and collected lots of recordings from the interviews. he then went away and using the recording he put together a short play, telling a more fictionalized version of the young man's story.
the reason this play was written and the reason the national theater set up the this project, was to raise awareness and understanding towards young people who find themselves in difficult situations. The play was deliberately not written from the victims point of view, so that the audience could begin to understand what it was like to be the perpetrator. The play shows how young people who do wrong, or commit crimes, may have a more complicated back story and may not be bad people, just people who have done bad things
( i got the information about the play from the production notes and the website about 'Blackout' )
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