I was lucky enough to visit the ‘Gielgud Theatre, London’ to watch The National Theatre’s award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. An interesting stage play adapted from Mark Haddon’s award-winning novel.
The story focuses on a boy called Christopher, we visit a murder mystery story from his perspective. Christopher can’t tell lies, does not like strangers, certain colours or being touched. He knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. The play starts as the title suggests with an incident involving his neighbour’s dog but as the story unravels, the mystery becomes more complicated than he could have ever predicted.
The physical movements of the cast and perfectly executed technical delivery added brilliantly to Christopher’s story in this play. I was lucky enough to read a tip-off that the best seat is one that allows you to see the stage floor and It certainly proved true while watching the technical magic unfold in this production. This was a theatre piece that I would be excited about watching again.
The trailer for the theatre show is available on youtube, you can watch it here:
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One response to “Autism and the stage – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
[…] You can discover more teaching resources on the National Theatre website here, including a wealth of strong resource packs that include works by Shakespeare and a brilliant background pack on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The pack goes into further detail discussing the individuality and ‘pointless exercise’ of diagnosing Christopher Boone. If you’d like to find out a little more about the play I have summarised my experience of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on my inspiration blog here. […]