Rinde Eckert, Eye Piece
Friday and Saturday, February 5 and 6, 8 pm
Sunday, February 7, 2 pm
Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, 8 pm
Sunday, February 14, 2 pm
Mabie Theatre
Imagine your world going dark. Contemplate the fading sight of a loved one.
Grapple with the responsibility of delivering a diagnosis. Renowned theater artist and UI graduate Rinde Eckert takes you behind the eyes and into the heads and hearts of those surrounded by the shadows of blindness. Crafted from interviews collected via an unusual collaboration between Eckert and the University of Iowa Carver Family Center for Macular Degeneration, Eye Piece will feature performers from the UI Theatre Arts and Dance departments and the School of Music as well as Eckert himself. With humor and compassion Eckert will lead us on a journey through darkness toward a different kind of illumination.
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. It is presented in collaboration with the UI Theatre Arts Department’s Partnership in the Arts and the UI Division of Performing Arts’ Creating the Future Initiative.
