Norman Blackwood
Playwright & Fiction Writer
Norman Blackwood is a playwright and fiction writer whose work combines dark comedy, historical fiction, and elements of the fantastic. His writing explores storytelling, self-deception, artistic vanity, and the unstable boundary between fiction and reality.
The Crisis of Creation
Stage Play
Dark Comedy / Historical Grotesque / Metafiction
The Crisis of Creation is a darkly comic stage work about authorship, storytelling, artistic ambition, and the unstable boundary between fiction and reality.
The play combines historical fiction, grotesque comedy, and elements of the fantastic to examine what happens when writers begin to lose control of the stories they believe belong to them.
About the Author
Blackwood's work is interested in the distance between the stories people tell about themselves and the less flattering realities underneath them. His characters rarely realize they are inside a comedy.