Toronto 
Events Description
David Mirvish is pleased to present the Canadian premiere of the Donmar Warehouse production of Blindness, a socially distanced sound installation, on the stage of the Princess of Wales Theatre.
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.
Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, for which he won both the Tony and Olivier awards for best play) has adapted Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s dystopian novel Blindness as a sound installation directed by Walter Meierjohann with immersive binaural sound design by Ben and Max Ringham. Juliet Stevenson voices the Storyteller/Doctor’s wife in this gripping story of the rise and, ultimately, profoundly hopeful end of an unimaginable global pandemic.
ABOUT THE INSTALLATION
Blindness will be “presented” on the stage of the Princess of Wales Theatre and the audience will be seated in “pods” of pairs and single seats spaced eight-feet apart. The Princess of Wales stage is massive: 60-feet deep by 100-feet wide and 220-feet tall. “On the stage” literally means that the audience will be seated where the actors would traditionally be; the show will happen around the audience as a “sound installation.” This means there will be no actors present. The audience will follow the story solely through an incredible soundscape that includes narration by the illustrious British stage, film and tv actress Juliet Stevenson. The audience will listen to the soundscape through individual headphones.
Who is it for?
Recommended for ages 15+
HOW MUCH
Tickets:
Tickets to all performances are $59.
The show runs 75 minutes without an intermission.
Each performance will be limited to 50 people.
How to get tickets?
1.800.461.3333
WHEN & WHERE
Date & Time:
August 4-8
Wednesday to Friday: 6PM, 8PM
Saturday & Sunday: 2PM, 6PM, 8PM
August 10-29
Tuesday to Friday: 2PM, 6PM, 8PM
Saturday & Sunday: 2PM, 4PM, 6PM, 8PM
September 24 to October 24, 2021
Tuesday to Sunday: 2PM, 5:30PM & 8PM
The show runs 75 minutes without an intermission.
Each performance will be limited to 50 people.
300 King Street West, Toronto
ON, M5V 1J2
