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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 Wales

Show Run

September 24, 2021 - October 24, 2021

Season

2021/22 Off-Mirvish Season

Genre

Sound installation

Producer/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.

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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