- he did an odd job working with disabled and autistic children . - published the book in 2003. - set in 1998 in swindon, London, England
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Why does the audience need to be connected with/ in Christopher's mind?
- we need to feel sympathy/emotion for him when events occur, need to see things from his perspective, all of this is portrayed to the audience through lighting, sound and expressionism
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What is expressionism why is expressionism important/relevant to this piece?
where the acting is distorted for the sole purpose of portraying the characters' strong feelings. e.g in aciotditnt his heightened movements and speech to show the effects of Christopher's autism, important as the audience is experiencing C's autism
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Themes
- the struggle to become independent - personal feelings (allows the audience to see C's perspective). - disorder of life (C has low tolerance for disorder so this upsets him).- coping with loss - frustration with C - science+technology - animals
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Name of production, theatre, place of theatre, date, month, year
curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Piccadilly Theatre, London, 24th January 2019
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Positive and negative visual impacts
+ stage is like a graph-links to theme of science and technology, instantly think maths-rational and organised + use of train set to comfort C, he likes order and planning ahead so he knows what's coming.
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Positive and negative visual impacts
+ use of light boxes as household objects (orange-oven, green-football on tv, blue-water in fishtank). - the ensemble physical theatre train station organised walking, properly thought and and too ordered, would be more effective and overwhelming
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Positive and negative visual impacts
for Christopher is it was all mixed up as it was previously, it means that there's no rational to it and would really freak C out. - bit weird that C a well behaved boy is drawing on the floor and then projected onto the wall so audience can see it
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Positive and negative visual impacts
C should just write straight onto wall, like in a classroom, safe, logical environment, like he's teaching the audience as well
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Positive and negative technical design elements
+ use of lighting to represent C's emotions-straw wash to show C's unease (he tells the audience he doesn't like yellow - bananas and double yellows) when he first met Mrs Alexander, C “doesn’t talk to strangers” and was unsure yell light in scene
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Positive and negative technical design elements
+ use of set to provide as a form of therapy for Christopher when he couldn’t deal with what was happening at that moment in his life. Using this prop showed the audience that he is a character that likes to plan things out and know what is coming
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Positive and negative technical design elements
+ use of costume- C and ed Boone always bright, rest of characters dull, teacher who wore red glasses, shoes and beads round her neck to make her outfit different to that of the character Mrs Shears that she played before
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Positive and negative technical design elements
- very high volume sound effects and confusing lighting when Christopher's head was overloaded and couldn't take anymore. This was included by the director so that the audience could feel the intrusion of the senses that Christopher does in these sit
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Positive and negative technical design elements
- the audience responded in a negative way to the volume of the sound effects as it interrupted the pace and flow of the peace because the audience were just focusing on how loud the sound was.
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Positive and negative technical design elements
- have the sound effects playing at different varied levels throughout this part of the production. In the actual production it rises to s crescendo which is effective but could be more interesting and less ear piercing if the volume of the sound wa
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Genre?
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creative adaptation
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Style?
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Context of the writer (Mark Haddon)
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