Details

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. 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.

Cast/Performers

Juliet Stevenson (voice)

Creatives/Company

Book by: Jose Saramago
Adapted by: Simon Stephens
Director: Walter Meierjohann
Sound(s): Ben Ringham, Max Ringham
Design: Lizzie Clachan
Lighting: Jessica Hung Han Yung