The play is an adaptation of the book with the same title, about a 15 year old boy, called Christopher who has Asperger's Syndrome. In the middle of the night he finds his neighbour's dog has been killed with a garden fork. The story is set in Swindon, England in 1998 at the home of Christopher's father. Christopher, while investigating the 'murder' of the dog finds out some hidden family secrets that change his opinion on his family forever. Christopher is extremely intelligent and exceptionally good at Maths.
Staging was interesting because there were three walls filled with grids with LED's on each of the points. The stage in itself played a huge part to make the performance effective and powerful. In fact, the grid was almost a character in in itself. The back wall could move backwards and forwards and the entire performance was influenced greatly by the dynamic of the stage. There was projection of different backgrounds on the back wall such as the passing images of the countryside when Christopher was on the train. Although the lighting was very impressive, it was psychedelic at times which gave me a small headache afterwards.
I really enjoyed the performance of the 'curious incident' since the plot was well thought out, and executed splendidly. I especially enjoyed it when there were flashbacks involving Christopher's mother because I thought that they were conveyed poignantly. I would definitely recommend going to see this play because it is remarkable, memorable and worth watching.
Read, Be Inspired and Write.
Malini
