The city is in panic.Īward-winning playwright 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 directed by Walter Meierjohann with immersive binaural sound design by Ben and Max Ringham. The government tries to quarantine the contagion by herding the newly blind people into an empty asylum. Within days an epidemic of blindness has spread through the city. Within hours it is clear that this is a blindness like no other. Suddenly, without warning or cause, he has gone blind. As the lights change at a major crossroads in a city in the heart of Europe a car grinds to a halt.
