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Blindness
Author(s)
Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, for which he won both the the Tony© and Olivier Awards for Best Play) has adapted Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s dystopian novel Blindness as a sound installation.
Venue
Princess of WalesShow Run
September 24, 2021 - October 24, 2021
Season
2021/22 Off-Mirvish SeasonGenre
Sound installationProducer/Director
The Donmar Warehouse Production
Directed by Walter Meierjohann with immersive binaural sound design by Ben and Max Ringham.
Cast
Juliet Stevenson voices the Storyteller/Doctor’s wife.
Blindness was first presented on the stage of the Princess of Wales Theatre beginning August 4, 2021 and was the first indoor theatre presentation in Toronto since the pandemic shut down all theatres.
Audiences were limited to 50 people per performance and were seated in pods of one or two. Everyone in attendance, including all staff, were masked.
Dates:
August 4 - 29, 2021
September 24 - October 24, 2021