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 http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/mar/17/curious-incident-midsummer-untold-review

The article The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published in "The Gardian"  on Sunday, 17 March 2013 by Susannah Clapp. This article reports about the perfomance which named "The Curious Insident of the Dog in the Night-Time". It is a mystery novel by British writer Mark Habbon. The reporter wrote it was one of the most original shows and startling successes at the National last year. Also the authoк underline that with the help of Simon Stephens's adroit adaptation, a terrific team found the way. And have done so, slightly differently, in the West End. Marianne Elliott's exhilarating production is less intimate than it was when performed in the round. There the audience, pressed against the action on all sides, bore down on Christopher Boone, a hero who can't bear to be touched. A bigger stage causes everyone to elocute a bit more: Niamh Cusack as the sympathetic teacher is more goody-goody than she was before. Then reporter wrote few words about some actors, their playing in perfomance etc. Especially that  Luke Treadaway as Christopher was even more compelling this time around. Trembling but unswerving, emotionally inflexible and intellectually agile, he was completely concentrated yet always fidgeting – tugging away at the string of his hoodie, focused on his mathematical proofs. He was, until he provides a dazzling coda, utterly raw and shell-shocked. He took people into the real achievement of the book and play, showing how so much of our common sense was actually lacking in logic, how odd the things were that they took for granted. Susannah tried to reflect the atmosphere in the scene, for example that anything could come to life; anything could be transformed. In a beautiful sequence the cast tap upon those planks with rhythms that built into a fine piece of percussive music. A puppet Cobweb dripped  his jaw and changes in an instant from sweet to sinister. In a big lewd gesture, which showed how a human body can be bent about and used as a puppet of the gods, the entranced Bottom proved himself to be a right arse – and a massive hit with the audience.



Speaking about my own expression I was really impressed by it. For me it was helpful because I read this novel and I would like to see it in the scene. To my mind it is really interesting how the author wrote.