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Una, a 27 year old woman, comes to visit Ray, a 55 year old man, at his office. They are clearly not comfrotable in each others company, and we soon find out why: 15 years before, when Una was only twelve, Ray seduced Una over the course of three months and finally took her away to a hotel for the weekend. Ray spent several years in prison for statutory rape, and Una was ostracized from her community after the incident. Now, she has found him by accident, and the play delves into thier complex feelings for each other, though clearly, and definitionally, sexual abuse has occuured, the play that ensues is also part of the love story--a horrible love story.  but a love story all the same. Winner of the Olivier Award for best Play, Blackbird is a deeply complex portrayl of two people whose ruined lives are extricable intertwined.