The Curious Incident returns

THE STAGE adaptation of Mark Haddon’s award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is kick-starting its UK tour in Salford this weekend, and even the producer’s father will be watching as the audience are invited into Christopher’s world for the night.

The Curious Incident is a mystery and follows a young boy who describes himself as a “mathematician with some behavioural difficulties” and as a result sees the world very differently.

Producer at National Theatre Production, Kash Bennett, said: “My dad’s never seen it so he’s reading the book, he said ‘I can’t stop thinking, how do you do that on the stage?’

“We have to inhabit Christopher’s world, the set is a very clever box of tricks but more than that I think its up to the audience to go with Christopher into his head.”

“When he’s floating in outer space we know he’s not, it’s not CGI, it’s not film, but it’s a very imaginative creative way in and we take that leap of faith with the audience. It’s quite hard to describe until you see that very clever set.”

The production – which will first be shown at The Lowry in Salford on Saturday, January 21 – was created by National Theatre Production at its studio in London in 2015 and will be touring the whole of the UK until September.

Kash said: “It was in a tiny little theatre at the National and we had a very successful run there, but then we had to find a way to get it onto the proscenium and onto a larger scale. It’s been a very long five-year process until we got to this version and every time the show moves someone different we get a chance to reinvent it a little bit.”