Title: Blindness
Venue and Format: Socially-distanced audio experience
Innovation: Sound and light piece through headphones
As the lights change at a major crossroads in a city in the heart of Europe a car grinds to a halt. Its driver can drive no more. Suddenly, without warning or cause, he has gone blind. Within hours it is clear that this is a blindness like no other. This blindness is infectious. Within days an epidemic of blindness has spread through the city. The government tries to quarantine the contagion by herding the newly blind people into an empty asylum. But their attempts are futile. The city is in panic.
THEATRE/COMPANY:
Donmar Warehouse
ARTISTS:
Actor: Juliet Stevenson
Writers: José Saramago, Simon Stephens
Director: Walter Meierjohann
Sound Design: Ben and Max Ringham
Designer: Lizzie Clachan
Lighting Designer: Jessica Hung Han Yun
Production Consultant: Professor Hannah Thompson
Translator: Giovanni Pontiero
DATE OF PREMIERE: August 1, 2020
COUNTRY: England
LANGUAGE: English
CATEGORY: Sound and Light, Zoom Play
