An immersive audio/visual meditation journey
Adapted from Les Aveugles by Maurice Maeterlinck
Conceived + Co-Created by Mia Rovegno + Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Commissioned + Produced by HERE Arts Center #STILLHERE virtual season in December 2020
Additional text written by: Mia Rovegno
Composer/Music Direction: Alaina Ferris
Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Production Design Consultant: Gabriel Evansohn
Music Mixing: Leah Shaw
Additional Editing: Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
CAST
Andrew Garman, Chad Goodrige, Matt Korahais, Tony Torn, Aviva Jaye, Angel Lin, Alaina Ferris
The Blind was developed with support from Catwalk Residency + Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
A community of sightless people who reside in a monastery are on a daily walk with their priest when they discover he has passed away as they rested in the deep forest. Reaching through darkness to find their way home, they struggle to assert their autonomy when faced with the paradox of uncertainty and agency.
This dream allegory of a leaderless people grappling with fears of a rapidly changing environment and an unknown future holds a timely mirror to our current economic and environmental crises amplified by a global pandemic.
Wearing headphones, audiences were immersed in a journey through the senses as a hypnotic and disorienting landscape of sound, object, light, animation and shadow puppetry invokes an intimate meditation on our current human condition.
Post-Show Interdisciplinary Artists Panel
The Blind’s music on bandcamp
Contact us for link to video. For optimal viewing, listen with headphones in a darkened room.