Essential Feature
The Curious Incident
Of The Dog In The
Night-Time
The National Theatre’s multi award-
Even people who hated school, even
winning production of The Curious
people who found school a miserable
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is
experience, had one teacher who they
currently on a nationwide tour of the UK
loved more than others and thought
and Ireland, whilst concurrently running
got them in a way that other teachers
at the Gielgud Theatre in London and at
didn’t. I knew that if I could get that
the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. It
relationship right, then we could create
visits Liverpool Empire from the 21-25
an evening in the theatre that people
July 2015 and tickets are now on sale.
could recognize themselves in. The other
Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark
thing I knew was that Marianne Elliott
Haddon’s best-selling novel, The Curious
had to direct it. I think she’s a visionary
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
director, I think she’s a director of
received seven Olivier Awards in 2013,
extraordinary imagination, but she’s also
including Best New Play, Best Director,
Best Lighting Design and Best Sound
Design.
Playwright Simon Stephens said about
adapting Haddon’s novel for the stage:
‘The adaptation was a really joyful
experience. I knew two things in adapting
the play. I knew that the key to it was the
relationship between Christ