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Blindness Sound Installation at Donmar Warehouse

Blindness Sound Installation at Donmar Warehouse

Donmar Warehouse to Open Temporarily With Socially Distanced Sound Installation, Blindness, Voiced by Juliet Stevenson

by Staff Writer
July 14, 2020
Reading Time: 3 mins read

The Donmar Warehouse is to reopen temporarily from 3 to 22 August with a socially distanced sound installation – Blindness, based on the dystopian novel by Nobel-prize winning José Saramago, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Walter Meierjohann. This hour-long ticketed installation for a limited number of visitors will run four times a day, with seating arranged 2m apart in accordance with social distancing guidelines in a transformed Donmar Warehouse.

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. 

Acclaimed stage and screen actor Juliet Stevenson voices the Storyteller/Doctor’s wife. Visitors will listen on headphones to this gripping story of an unimaginable global pandemic – and its profoundly hopeful conclusion – featuring an immersive sound design using binaural technology by Ben and Max Ringham. The Donmar Warehouse is reimagined by designer Lizzie Clachan, with atmospheric lighting designed by Jessica Hung Han Yun.

       

Enhanced safety measures will be used to ensure the health and safety of all visitors to the Donmar.  Visitors will be seated 2m apart in accordance with social distancing requirements, unless they attend with someone from their household or social bubble.  All visitors will be required to wear a face covering throughout their visit (medical exemptions permitted) as will all Donmar staff. The bar areas will be closed and there will be a one-way system around the building, with visitors asked to queue in line with social distancing. There will be sanitising points throughout the building and the headphones, seats, toilets and public areas will be thoroughly cleaned between each installation.

Audio-described content will be available at every installation from Friday 7 August, and there will be a captioned installation at 2pm on Saturday 15 August.  An audio-described or captioned digital version of the installation will also be available for purchase for those not able to attend in person.

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Production Consultant (blind and partially blind experience) Professor Hannah Thompson from Royal Holloway said “The Donmar Warehouse has a strong track record in supporting visually impaired audiences to enjoy their productions. I am pleased that I have been invited to support the creative team to ensure the Blindness sound installation has accessibility built into the experience for all visitors. José Saramago’s novel is a complex portrayal of blindness, and the Donmar is exploring how blindness can lead to different ways of being in the world and an appreciation that sight isn’t as necessary for understanding as we may think. In fact this installation will show that blindness can lead to rich and immersive aesthetic experiences.”

Tickets go on sale from 12pm Friday 17 July for public booking. Donmar members can book from 12pm Wednesday 15 July.

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