It imagines an epidemic in which blindness spreads like a virus.‘I suppose you could say Blindness is a manifestation of everybody’s worst Covid nightmares,’ says Juliet. A medical student, though, is using the social media app to tell people some basics about what he is learning while becoming a doctor. Had the pandemic not hit, Juliet would have recently finished appearing in the West End transfer of The Doctor, Robert Icke’s radically reimagined version of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 play Professor Bernhardi, which was first seen at the Almeida Theatre last year.But as with every live show, the pandemic killed off those plans.
PHOENIX - Arizonans on unemployment are no longer receiving the federal $600 bonus payments. For months, they had that extra cushion during the COVID-19 pandemic. And that’s what Blindness is about, this eruption of a character who starts as a perfectly likeable wife to an optician running his surgery, living in a perfectly nice suburban house, and becomes a lioness — a murdering monster.‘As the survival drive emerges, she doesn’t recognise herself. Irish News 12/08/2020. But it’s a very different story.’The idea to adapt the work for theatre has been around for at least a couple of years. Instead, Juliet travelled into central London to work with specialist sound designers and binaural equipment that immerses the listener in an eerily convincing 3D soundscape. Yet Juliet remains hopeful.‘What’s been really lovely and encouraging is that the tickets sold really fast. The victim, who has been...Tenants who were removed from a house in north Dublin during an eviction have returned to the property following a protest by housing activists. And yes, it went off in my face. One American was particularly amazed by Lidl and documented her wonder on the popular video app TikTok. 24 July 2020 . There's no reason why this couldn't wait until they got home! The work has allowed the Donmar Warehouse — a tiny, 251-seat theatrical powerhouse that attracts big names such as Nicole Kidman and Ian McKellen to its stage — to be the first London theatre to open its doors to the public since the pandemic hit.Blindness, however, is not so much a play as an installation, which can be accessed by a socially distancing audience of 40, four times a day.‘In this piece everyone is blind except my character,’ explains Juliet. Bars feel sting of extended closure.
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30 July 2020 . Juliet did wonder ‘whether people want to go to the theatre to see a piece about an epidemic. ‘Very adorably, he hated that gun so much, we were always a bit nervous when he had to pull it out.‘There were three of us in that scene — me, Andrew and the gun, which that night decided it wanted a leading role.‘So, Andrew pointed it at my face, to get me to sit down while I’m beseeching him to be calm.
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And in the meantime Blindness can give people some relief, she hopes.‘They’ll go home and think, “Oh, we had quite a good lockdown.”’ We were like a couple of kids. Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Dublin was hit with a bomb scare on Tuesday morning.