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War Horse. The production is designed
‘All I ever wanted to do was to make
by Bunny Christie, with lighting by Paule
Mark Haddon happy. He came to see
Constable, video design by Finn Ross,
rehearsals and the previews and the show
at the National and in the West End and
Broadway and he fell back in love with
Curious Incident all over again. That
makes me as proud as anything.’
movement by Scott Graham and Steven
Hoggett for Frantic Assembly, music
by Adrian Sutton and sound by Ian
Dickinson for Autograph.
Author Mark Haddon himself added:
The show tells the story of Christopher
‘When I wrote Curious Incident I was
Boone, who is fifteen years old.
absolutely convinced that it couldn’t be
stands beside Mrs Shears’ dead dog,
adapted for film or stage. The novel is one
which has been speared with a garden
person’s very insulated and sometimes
fork, it is seven minutes after midnight
profoundly mistaken view of the world.
We’re stuck inside Christopher’s head
from cover to cover. We see the world the
way he sees the world. And there’s the
He
and Christopher is under suspicion. He
records each fact in a book he is writing
to solve the mystery of who murdered
problem. Or so it seemed to me. Theatre
Wellington.
is radically third person. You can infer
brain, and is exceptional at maths while
what people are thinking but you can
ill-equipped to interpret everyday life.
do so only from what they say and what
He has never ventured alone beyond the
they do. I simply couldn’t imagine how
end of his road, he detests being touched
Christopher’s story could be told with
and distrusts strangers. But his detective
any integrity in this way. Simon’s genius
was to recognise that I was completely
and utterly wrong.’
He has an extraordinary
work, forbidden by his father, takes him
on a frightening journey that upturns his
world.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time is directed by Marianne
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