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The Blind (4 stars)

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The Blind

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Spectacular outdoor performance inspired by the best-selling novel Blindness by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago. Evokes the memory of paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. The KTO is a theatre on the road. Its shows have been attended by over one and a half million people. ‘The blind secluded in a hospital-like camp soon lose their civic structure and create their own world based on violence and animalistic instincts’ (Joanna Targon). Script, direction and selection of music by Jerzy Zon. www.teatrkto.pl/en.html. Ages 14+.

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The Blind

7 Aug 20124 stars

Stunningly powerful outdoors multimedia spectacle

Krakow-based KTO Theatre pulls off a rare feat in combining stunning visual effects with a potent emotional impact in its gripping, wordless show The Blind. Whether through pounding music, imagery that’s by turns shocking and poignantly beautiful, or…

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