A man and his wife promise each other that they will train until they can run 38 kilometres in five hours. But why? Because it is the only way to cross the Channel Tunnel. The Channel Tunnel is 38 kilometres underwater, and there are exactly five hours between the last train of the evening and the first train in the morning. But a week before they make the attempt, the woman gets arrested. The Iranian writer and director Amir Reza Koohestani, an important voice in the Iranian theatre landscape, presents his urgent vision of contemporary Iran with Blind Runner.
Through an ingenious system, breathless dialogues alternate with inner monologues, alluding to everything that can go wrong in the middle of the night. After the woman's arrest, the couple continues to train with a prison wall between them. They keep running no matter what. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Or are we too blinded by now?
With after-talk at August 18th at 9PM.
This performance falls under the programme theme Under Pressure. When you visit 3 or more performances from one theme, you receive a 10% discount on your tickets. Read more here.
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