I wanted so badly to like this multi-disciplinary piece from the thoughtful duo of Devon Healey (writer/performer) and Nate Bitton (performer/co-director with Mitchell Cushman). The show is produced by their company Peripheral Theatre alongside unconventional space pioneers Outside the March and the National Ballet of Canada whose apprentices appear as a beautiful but confounding supporting ensemble with choreography by the celebrated Robert Binet.

Though an admirable concept of accessibility and multi-sensory immersion into the journey into blindness promises intellectual and emotional engagement, none of the production concepts are taken far enough, from the audio description that flirts too much with poetry to accurately reflect the onstage action to the underwhelming non-visual sense stimulation aspects (touch and smell are left almost entirely unengaged, Heidi Chan’s sound design doesn’t take hearing nearly far enough; I will give them a pass on taste).

Healey’s story is simultaneously too abstract and too familiar as compelling points about navigating the healthcare system are abandoned in favour of a cautionary tale of relying too much on your smartphone. As a much-trimmed and more complete one-act, I could see the concepts of this piece coming together into something totally immersive and memorable but at the moment it feels underbaked.