Blackout

A mobile phone video circulating amongst students, is shocking parents and teachers. Is this the desensitized youth of today's world? A case of sexual abuse? Or a prank with unforeseen consequences? As the adults attempt to reconstruct the chain of events, they constantly reach their limits, confronted with their own expectations, prejudices and clichés. Because for Sibel, Jasmine, Darko and Jackson, sex - and talking about it - may come with the territory. But that doesn't mean at all that they want to talk about it with their parents or, even less so, the sex educator called in to consult with them. While worried mothers demand action and as the faculty resorts to activism, the teenagers are searching for their own sexuality in the flood of pornographic images in the media, somewhere along the thin line between provocation and confusion. Based on conversations with teenagers, Blackout is a play about adolescents, sex and what adults think they know about it.