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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Broadway

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Review: ‘Curious Incident’ hits you in surprising ways in SF debut





“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” unfolds like a metaphysical murder mystery.


Taking its title from a Sherlock Holmes short story, this sensational Tony Award-winning Broadway hit is based on the 2003 novel by Mark Haddon. Clues are discovered throughout the staging, not only into the case of a canine but also into the far deeper and more elusive secret of what makes us who we are.



Is it biology that rules our fates or is there more to identity than genetic coding? That’s one of the central questions in Simon Stephens’ thrilling theatrical adaption. Directed with shattering emotional impact by Marianne Elliott, this heart-pounding and brain puzzling National Theatre production invites us to see the world through the peculiar eyes of a lad name Christopher.
He’s got a steel-trap mind but zero social skills and a crippling vulnerability to sensory overload. In his mind, the world is a nonstop barrage of meaningless body language, deafening booms and blinding lights.


Bunny Christie’s set design, a cavernous digital box of pulsing strobes, plunges us into this nightmarish fugue state, a window into what life can be like on the autism spectrum. Paule Constable’s lights and Ian Dickinson’s sound design heighten the overwhelming sensory assault.



Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime
Adam Langdon as Christopher Boone in the touring production of *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*. Joan Marcus/SHN

The sheer technical virtuosity of the set, a visual and aural metaphor for Christopher’s seething brain, might well have overshadowed the humanity of the story. But Elliott (“War Horse”) keeps the staging grounded in its raw human core as Christopher (a compelling Adam Langdon) goes on a quest to solve the murder of his best friend, a dog named Wellington who was stabbed to death with a pitch fork.


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He’s got an edge of course, a mind for details and patterns that no one else sees. A math whiz who can fathom equations more easily than he can make small talk, Christopher must leave his snug little cocoon of habits and rituals to solve the mystery. Just riding the subway, brushing up against strangers, buffeted by smells, is a harrowing prospect for the lad. He has no understanding of social cues, he dismisses metaphors as lies and he’d rather pet a rat than shake your hand.



JOAN MARCUS/SHNGene Gillette, left, and Adam Langdon star in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," coming to San Francisco June 27-July 23.
JOAN MARCUS/SHN<br />Gene Gillette, left, and Adam Langdon star in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” coming to San Francisco June 27-July 23. 

His father (an intense Gene Gillette), a working class man exhausted by his son’s peculiarities, warns Christopher about poking into the affairs of others. But once the game is afoot, there’s no turning back. The death of the dog uncovers other neighborhood secrets that gradually unravel Christopher’s sense of security.
The further he ventures outside his house, the braver he has to be. That’s when he relies on the things he’s learned from his teacher Siobhan (Maria Elena Ramirez), a warm woman with a soothing voice who shows him tricks to cope with reality, such as calculating prime numbers. That’s a much better coping mechanism than his usual habit of rolling into a fetal ball and moaning.


As Christopher pieces together what must really have happened to the pooch, we get to peek inside his beautiful but strange mind and that’s a memorable ride indeed.












‘THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME’


By Simon Stephens, adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon, presented by SHN


Through: July 23


Where: Golden Gate Theatre, 1 Taylor St., (at Market), San Francisco


Running time: two hours, 30 minutes


Tickets: $55-$275, 888-746-1799



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