REVIEWS FOR BLINDNESS
*New York Times Critic's Pick!
Maya Phillips, New York Times:
"...plays as a thrill for long-deprived ears and eyes. By the time I departed the theater, the milky gray ambivalence of the afternoon sky had finally given way to rain, the kind of rain that baptizes the trio of women in the production's last scene. I left thinking not about order and chaos, individuality and community, empathy and selfishness, as I expected I might. I only considered the blunt fact of my vision - the sights of Union Square, its pedestrians and traffic. In other words, the electrifying panorama of the world around me..."
Greg Evans, Deadline: the staging - the concept, the tech stuff, the performance - lends a vividness to Saramago's fabulism that the 2008 film, with all its graphic and naturalist detail, lacked. In this production, we receive everything through the voice of the one character who remains sighted, a storyteller gathering us round a virtual campfire to chill us with the unseen horrors breathing down our necks.
Elysa Gardner, New York Stage Review: delivered the kind of transcendence only offered by live theater, in a communal setting. In more than one sense, then, Blindness proves well worth the wait.
Roma Torre, New York Stage Review: ...the overall tone is unsettling to the point of being truly frightening, and that's owed in large part to our disorienting times. The combined effect of the dystopian story, the realistic sounds and Stephenson's bravura narration may be a little too close to the bone for some to take these days. But I would add that Saramago's story seems all the more prescient as it ends on a note of hopefulness for his sightless souls... just as we too are emerging from our own pandemic hell.
VIDEO:
Pix 11:
When the play "Blindness" opened at the Daryl Roth Theater on Union Square on Friday, April 2, it became one of the first theater productions to open since the pandemic shut everything down last March. https://youtu.be/cYMNdnHekL8
Major Bill De Blasio visits the Daryl Roth Theatre:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNNbUiGDnrOkHJ-C1yNZgQW4ivbF9bYKOnzHko0/?igshid=11l7ls93wnqvh
About the rigorous Covid protocols:
https://twitter.com/blindnessevent/status/1376957868763709440?s=21