Sightless Cinema returns to The Civic after the success of their Ballymuck Exchange – a telephone comedy in 2021. Close your eyes, if you dare! Blind Panic is a mixed programme of short thrillers, hauntings and strange scratching in the cupboard. The immersive surround sound audio plays are a feast for the imagination – because all the pictures are in your head.
Optional blindfolds are provided to help bring into the world of Sightless Cinema.
Ash is set in a country lodge guest house during a thunder storm which brings on strange happenings, and consequences for all the guests.
Horse and No Jockey is a madcap comic mystery, which sees a blind weekend away go off the rails, as more than the bags get mixed up.
In The Visitor, Laura returns from a horror film at the cinema, to make an unsettling discovery in the old house she’s just moved into.
The evening will also feature Blind or What? a live radio drama with live soundscapes performed by a Sightless Cinema Network cast of twenty-six from three counties, letting you experience the everyday adventures of blind people making their way through the urban landscape.
In its ninth successful year Sightless Cinema is a collaborative arts project for people with sight loss to devise and produce audio theatre, led by director Ciarán Taylor.
Sightless Cinema Network is a collaboration between South Dublin, Meath and Laois County Council Arts Offices, and theatre artist Ciarán Taylor, in partnership with Solstice Arts Centre, Dunamaise Arts Centre and The Civic Theatre, with the National Council of the Blind of
Ireland.
It is funded by The Arts Council under the Invitation to Collaboration Scheme.
