Calgarian pens play about party girl who wakes up blind, based on true events

Ashley King suddenly went blind while halfway around the world. Now, the 32-year-old has written a play about the ordeal. King wrote Static: A Party Girl's Memoir, and is also performing in a production of it.

Ashley King suddenly went blind while halfway around the world.

Now, the 32-year-old has written a play about the ordeal. 

King wrote Static: A Party Girl's Memoir, and is also performing in a production of it. 

It's about a young woman whose life is all about booze, boys and late-night parties, until she wakes up blind while on holiday.

"I wanted people to see the raw humanity of struggle," said King. "But also the humorous side, so that we don't just sit in the dark despair or difficult side of going through something really traumatic."

In 2011, after graduated high school, King took a year off to travel.

She was 19 years old and living in Australia when she took a trip to Bali.