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Performing Arts The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Year Group: 8

Key Information Main characters and the actors Creative Team
1 Acting Style Physical Theatre 1 Christop The main character. He has autism 1 Director Marianne Elliott

2 Design Style Minimalism her and the play is told through his 2 Designer Bunny Christie
perspective. He loves maths and
Boone science.
3 Themes There are many themes in Curious 2 Christopher’s father. He finds it 3 Lighting D Paule Constable
esigner
Incident, but you should decide which difficult to cope with Christopher’s
ones stand out to you’re the most as an Ed autism and he struggles 4 Video Desi Finn Ross
audience member – honesty and trust, Boone to understand Christopher. They are gner
isolation, becoming independent, not close.
coping with loss, love, family. 5 Movement Scott Graham
3 Christopher’s mother. Christopher is Directors and Seven Hoggart fr
4 Purpose You need to decide that you think the Judy led to believe she is dead until her om Frantic Assembly
main purpose is after doing your Boon discovers she is alive and lives in
research. You may think the purpose is London. 6 Music Adrian Sutton
to challenge/educate/question the
audience about a particular theme or 4 One of Christopher's teachers at 7 Sound De Ian Dickinson
issue. It is also a good idea to research school. He seems really fond of signer
interviews with the writer and director her. Although Christopher's
to explore what they wanted to achieve Siobhan father understands him well, Siobhan 8 Associate Katy Rudd
by putting on the play. is the only one who can really speak Director
his language.
5 Creative Inte You need to decide what the Creative 9 Resident Ashley Scott-Lay
ntions Intentions are after doing your 5 Director
research. Mrs Alex The neighbour across the street 10 Fight Direc Kate Waters
In terms of the acting choices – the ander who inadvertently helps Christopher
creative intention could be to with his detective work. tor
communicate a specific mood or
emotion such as anger, 6 Contextual Links:
fear, awkwardness, happiness. Mr. Shears and Christopher's mother From Page to Stage:
In term of the design choices – the Mr and M run off together. Mrs. Shears https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03dw
creative intention could be to rs Shears and Christopher's father, left behind, q2r/clips
communicate a mood or atmosphere try out a romance, too. Mrs. Shears BBC Bitesize link:
such as busy, comical, backs out, though, so Christopher's https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpqy
tense, futuristic. father kills her dog.
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