Spinning Tree Theatre presents THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

By Kansas City playwright Frank Higgins (Black Pearl Sings!). Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells. Directed by Vanessa Severo (Frida). Eduardo, a poor farmer in a South American village, dreams of being in love. Frustrated by his poverty and disability of being blind in one eye, he turns his back on his own world and risks his life to find a mythical village high in the Andes mountains where everyone is blind and the streets are paved in gold. When he stumbles upon the village and realizes that the people who live there have no knowledge of the outside world, he fantasizes that “in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” However, he learns that the people have skills that he does not…