No eyes. No hope...
The true story of the man who made the impossible, possible.
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1682. Blind since infancy, Nicholas Saunderson is humiliated and rejected at every turn, as those around him write him off. But Saunderson has a unquenchable need to make sense of a world that he cannot see. And a will of iron. Is it enough to make something out of nothing...to prove the naysayers wrong? |
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No Horizon the musical
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No Horizon is the remarkable musical inspired by the story of blind Nicholas Saunderson; a story of family, faith, forbidden love, fierce ambition — and one man’s courage to defy convention and challenge a world determined to impose a life of banality upon him. Touchingly told through soaring music that will live long in the memory, it does more than entertain — No Horizon raises the spirit. Saunderson would rise from rural obscurity to scale the heights of academia at Cambridge University, to become the blind man who could explain the mysteries of vision, light and colour; the bluff Yorkshireman sought out by royalty; to gain election to the Royal Society; and to be destined to occupy the most prestigious mathematical seat in the land; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. |
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Slideshow:
The Journey Continues...
Six years on, from a Covid stalled 2020 tour No Horizon is now being prepared for a new life on stage.
January 2027 - One week development and showcase - Barnsley Civic
March/April 2028 - The tour!
The aim is clear: to restore Saunderson to his rightful place as a national icon, and to bring No Horizon back to audiences with the scale, emotion and theatrical quality the story deserves.
Previous six figure funding from Arts Council England, the Foyle Foundation, Barnsley Civic and CAST Doncaster, brought No Horizon to within two days of touring before Covid struck.
It's been a very long journey, from dream to community musical to sell out audiences of approaching 200 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the professional theatre and subsequent disappointment of the cancelled tour.
And now the journey continues!
January 2027 - One week development and showcase - Barnsley Civic
March/April 2028 - The tour!
The aim is clear: to restore Saunderson to his rightful place as a national icon, and to bring No Horizon back to audiences with the scale, emotion and theatrical quality the story deserves.
Previous six figure funding from Arts Council England, the Foyle Foundation, Barnsley Civic and CAST Doncaster, brought No Horizon to within two days of touring before Covid struck.
It's been a very long journey, from dream to community musical to sell out audiences of approaching 200 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the professional theatre and subsequent disappointment of the cancelled tour.
And now the journey continues!
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