Screen turning off randomly, cannot turn back on. potential disaster for live music i'm doing!

screen goes black, laptop seems to have not turned off but nothing can turn the screen on. seems fine after a reboot but problem recurs at some random future inconvenient point in time. problem is annoyingly inconsistent - it will occur at random (no discoverable software or hardware conjunctions), sometimes around once weekly, sometimes less frequently. have already had it in a mac repair, said they fixed it, something to do with graphics card firmware. not so. same issue. currently in touch with support but in frustratingly slow red tape processes. VERY curious to find if ANYONE has experienced this issue. it seems very unlikely that i am the only macbook pro user on earth that this happens to......i perform live music with this laptop as part of my set-up - and am actively refusing shows at present until this is resolved!!!

thank you very much for your reply.
can you please just clarify exactly what you mean by "replaced my HDD to SSD" - you mean changing your hard drive to the solid state kind? how long ago did you make the change and thus how long now without the issue? was it also happening to you irregularly (it might be a month or two that it won't happen for, and then more frequently...) - many thanks for any info......

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My screen shuts off randomly
at least twice a day.
This is what I get after force quit my laptop and turn on.
I went to apple store and they said just to open up and check what is wrong cost $300~350
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