For the first time in over a year, live indoor theatre is returning to Toronto.

Mirvish Productions said Tuesday the “socially distanced sound installation” Blindness will premiere at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Aug. 4 — marking the city’s first indoor stage show since the pandemic shut down theatres in May 2020.

Adapted by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) from the José Saramago’s novel, the story is described, fittingly, as “the rise and, ultimately, profoundly hopeful