This performance is inspired and based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s play: a dozen blind people are motionless in the forest, on an island. They were abandoned by their guide. He left without knowing where or why, and he does not return. The blind wait forever. The night falls, the cold grows, the snow comes, the water rises around them…
Clyde Chabot made an adaptation of this text. The blind are no longer essentially old people, who may die, but young people who will probably be saved. The enthusiasm, hope and joy of children, always ready to believe in a positive outcome, almost outweighs the worry, darkness and fear of death.
One of the strengths of this writing is its beautiful indeterminacy: it leaves all freedom of interpretation to the reader, especially when ultimately appears a strange female character: death or a savior? Similarly, the fog of Fujiko Nakaya disturbs the sight, awakens the imagination, offers everyone to perceive through the mist, to interpret the signs through the clouds.”
