Donmar Warehouse to reopen with José Saramago installation Blindness

The London theatre will present a socially distanced adaption of the Portuguese author’s novel, voiced by Juliet Stevenson

The Donmar Warehouse in London is to reopen this summer for an immersive sound installation exploring the panic caused by an epidemic. Blindness, an hour-long adaptation of Portuguese author José Saramago’s novel, will feature the voice of Juliet Stevenson and will run four times a day, with socially distanced seating for audiences.

Saramago won the Nobel prize for literature in 1998, shortly after the publication of Blindness. The Donmar’s artistic director, Michael Longhurst, said the story – in which a city’s inhabitants suddenly begin to go blind – is an “extraordinary allegory about a government’s and society’s response to a pandemic”.

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Blindness runs at the Donmar Warehouse, London, from 3-22 August.

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