Simon Stephens adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel “the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime”, was an inspiring play which left you overwhelming joyful and slightly confused by the end of the performance.
The presentation is about a young protagonist, Christopher Boone trying to find out the mystery of who killed Mrs Shears dog, Wellington. The beginning of the play provides the whodunnit crime narrative structure. This allows a simple and optimistically tragic beginning of the Play (as the first thing you saw was a dead dog) showing off the innovative lighting and the inanimate characters. It allowed you to slowly understand Christopher’s character and grow attached to him. As the audience can look inside his mind and see things the way he’s seeing it.
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Simon Stephen has really stayed faithful to this vision. The audience was able to see how each character was flawed not just Christopher and his instinctive recoiling from human touch. Judy Christopher’s’ mum (arguably the real antagonist of the play) was flawed, she couldn’t commit or have patience. She was stubborn, these characteristics were the main reason she left Christopher. Ed’s broken heart caused him to build a web of lies to protect himself and what he thought was protecting Christopher. This led to some dangerous and abusive events towards Christopher and Other character i.e. Wellington. However, throughout all the chaos, when Christopher accepted Ed’s and Judy’s flaws and accepted that everyone is different even when their actions aren’t justified. He became a lot happier. This can be interpreted and related to by every person in the audience which is why this play was so important to see. It included themes that mattered in an everyday life