The Day My Director Gave Me The Weirdest Order I Ever Received… And I Fulfilled It

I acted at a play almost two decades ago called “Blindness.” Yes, it was an adaptation of José Saramago’s bestseller, a beautiful story — and very heavy, too.

Much of the plot takes place inside an abandoned asylum, where the blind — ordinary people who “got a mysterious illness” and stopped seeing — are hospitalized and need to fight to survive. Between one and another wave of new blinds, a group comes from prison. The bandits, realizing the situation in which they found themselves, began…