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For immediate release: April 3, 2007
Brown Theatre
Contact: Brian Gaston, Box Office Manager
401-863-2730 * brian_gaston@brown.edu *
Further information: www.brown.edu/tickets

Brown Theatre and Sock & Buskin present:

The Blind

by Maurice Maeterlinck

Directed by Rebecca Schneider
April 12-15 & 19-22, 2007
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm
Leeds Theatre, 77 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912

Box Office: 401.863.2838
For more information: www.brown.edu/tickets

Brown Theatre's production of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blind is an antic exploration of fear and longing. The play bravely, and sometimes ridiculously, explores the ways in which fear motivates us to turn away from personal events or global crises that may be hard to keep in focus. Part clown show, part searing commentary on the "percepticide" prevelant in our times, The Blind takes a look at surveillance culture to ask how we have become so adept at not seeing the ways in which we constantly self-monitor, self-censor, and self-discipline. It also asks how we have become so adept at not seeing each other.

Maurice Maeterlinck wrote this parable play in 1890 about twelve blind religious citizens who find themselves abandoned on an island by their priest. In fact, the priest lies dead on stage the entire time. The blind, being blind, can't see that fact -- and thus their predicament. The Brown production, which takes a number of 21st-century liberties with the script, features Professor Emeritus James O. Barnhill playing the dead Priest, as well as an ensemble of eighteen talented actors, a baby, and a dog! This production even includes, perhaps surprisingly, dancing and singing and the use of cell phones and video monitors. You'll have to see it to believe. If, that is, you've still got your sight.

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