Featuring Daniel Ball, David Bartlett, Katherine Boynton, Alisa Burket, Enid Cortes, Darren Curley, Timothy Fannon, Kristen Harlow, Lawrence Jansen, Gregory Konow, Deanna McGovern, Nick Paglino, Mike Roche, Cyrus Roxas, Michael Shimkin, Michael Tranzilli and Sam Whitten

THE STORY: A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where, one by one, people are struck with a mysterious case of sudden white blindness. The blindness spreads, sparing no one. The blind and those suspected of having the white blindness are confined to an empty mental asylum. The doctor's wife feigns illness in order to take care of her husband as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos. Inside, a criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. A parable of loss and disorientation, of man's worst appetites and hopeless weaknesses, BLINDNESS is a challenging, thought-provoking, and ultimately exhilarating story.

JOSE SARAMAGO: Portuguese writer, who has combined in his work myths, history of his own country, and surrealistic imagination. José Saramago was born in 1922 in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo. Mr. Saramago has published plays, short stories, novels, poems, libretti, diaries, and travelogues. His first novel, Manual de pintura e caligrafia, appeared in 1977. His international breakthrough came in 1982 with the blasphemous and humorous love story Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do convento), a novel set in 18th century Portugal. In 1986, he met the Spanish journalist Pilar del Río. They got married in 1988. In consequence of the Portuguese government censorship of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (O evangelho segundo Jesus Christo,1991), vetoing its presentation for the European Literary Prize under the pretext that the book was offensive to Catholics, they transferred their residence to the island of Lanzarote in the Canaries. His awards include Prémio Cidade de Lisboa 1980, Prémio PEN Club Português 1983 and 1984, Prémio da Crítica da Associação Portuguesa 1986, Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela 1991, Prémio Vida Literária 1993, Prémio Camões 1995. In 1993, he started writing a diary, Cuadernos de Lanzarote (Lanzarote Diaries), with five volumes so far. In 1995, he published the novel Blindness, in which an epidemic of blindness starts to spread in a nameless city. In 1997 he published All the Names, in which he pays homage to the bureaucratic labyrinths of Kafka. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2001 he published La caverna and in 2002, El hombre duplicado.

Harold Bloom has considered José Saramago the "most gifted novelist alive in the world today".

GODLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY was formed for the purposes of fostering community appreciation for drama and the performing arts. Godlight is committed to bring new and underperformed texts to the stage by creating original adaptations of modern classical literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as commissioning new dramatic works from emerging talent. The ensemble and creative team of Godlight Theatre Company explore new plays informed by the issues of life in contemporary America.