
Rainbow on Mars
by Devon Healey
An Outside the March Experience
in co-production with The National Ballet of Canada and Peripheral Theatre
Audition Call
Rainbow on Mars is currently casting a performer who identifies as Blind and can play ages mid-20s to late-30s. Submissions are due April 30, 2025.
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A RECLAMATION OF BLINDNESS
A multidisciplinary reclamation of blindness by one of the country’s leading voices in Blind Studies, co-produced with The National Ballet of Canada and Peripheral Theatre.
Tickets on sale this Spring
Click here to subscribe to our email and be the first to find outInspired by Healey’s journey into blindness as a young adult, RoM follows a young woman as she ascends from a Plato’s Cave-like space of ocularcentric half-slugs to a disorienting new horizon of possibility. With the help of some unlikely allies, she must shed her desire to return to the Cave and develop her own relationship with blindness.
The project features a hybrid cast of blind, visually impaired, and sighted theatre performers as well as The National Ballet’s company of apprentice dancers. RoM is choreographed by Robert Binet, one of Canada’s premiere ballet choreographers, and co-directed by OtM’s Mitchell Cushman and award-winning visually impaired stage combat director Nate Bitton, with script development supported by Cushman, Bitton and Vanessa Smythe.
Rainbow on Mars simultaneously marks the premiere of Immersive Descriptive Audio (IDA). Created by Healey, this new accessible stagecraft practice is designed for both blind and sighted audience members alike, embedding a deepened audio description experience and sound design within the narrative itself.
Tickets for Rainbow on Mars, along with full cast and crediting, will be available this Spring.
Developed with the support of The TD Ready Commitment through OtM’s TD Forward March New Work Development Program, and by The Metcalf Foundation through its Staging Change program.
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- August 2025
To be announced.