B L I N D S I D E

PHYSICAL COMEDY | LIVE PROJECTION | DANCE | STORYTELLING

This show was recently awarded MOST OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (London Fringe Festival)

and OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK (Ottawa Fringe Festival)

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★  "EXPERT PHYSICAL COMEDY AND IMPECCABLE TIMING."  -CBC

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★  "HEARTWARMING REMINDER OF THE POWER OF EMBRACING WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE."  -Vue Weekly

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ''FUNNY, VULNERABLE, AND SWEET.  PHENOMENAL AND NOT TO BE MISSED!'' -Inside Ottawa

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ''MORIN-ROBERT’S GREATEST STRENGTH IS THAT SHE MAKES YOU, THE AUDIENCE MEMBER, FALL IN LOVE WITH HER. SHE TELLS HER STORY IN AN INTOXICATING WAY – BRINGING THE AUDIENCE TO A CRESCENDO OF LAUGHTER, ONLY TO KNOCK THE WIND OUT OF YOUR EMOTIONAL SAILS AND HAVE YOU ON THE VERGE OF TEARS.'' 

-Theatre In London

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★  “A TRIUMPH OF STORYTELLING. GO. GO. GO.” -CM Montreal

 

“WE LAUGHED UNTIL WE CRIED, AND CRIED UNTIL WE LAUGHED”  -Montreal Times

“EVERYONE MUST SEE THIS SHOW.” -CTV

“A WARM, POIGNANT AND VERY FUNNY STORY” -London Free Press

 

In a feat of riveting comedy, one-eyed storytelling champion and cancer survivor Stephanie Morin-Robert recounts her life as a feisty 7 year-old who wields her glass-eye as a superpower.   

 

In Blindside, a prospector’s recent diamond discovery forces his daughter, a young and sheltered cancer patient with a prosthetic eye, to change schools in the middle of the third grade. While her family members are distracted by their luxurious new lifestyles, she struggles with finding the confidence it takes to face her tormenting bullies at her new school. With the help of her cat, a pair of sunglasses, and an undesirable superpower, she soon discovers that she has what it takes to fight back and come to terms with her disability.

 

Written and Performed by

Stéphanie Morin-Robert