While reading my emails, I noticed that The Curious Incident Of The Dog in The Night was playing its final performance at our local "art" theatre· Seeing the announcement reminded me that this film had been on my "wish list" for some time· After exploring its availability on dvd and vod, and not finding it, I hollered down to Richard: "Want to go to the movies tonight?" After learning it's title, he surprising agreed, even though we had but a short time to get to are local art theater· Curious … is a film of a live stage show produced by the National Theater in London. Transferring a stage production to film is fraught with dangers, and rarely successful· And the Long Island Village of Patchogue is infamous for it's parking problems, but we managed to sneak into one of the few remaining free stalls in the village lot across the street from the small arts theater· We were a bit hassled by the time we settle into our seats·
We were enthralled by the film· Not only was the play well written and imaginatively staged, we thought the filming enhanced the production. The camera was able get views and angles that would have been unavailable to audience members· Except for one crucial scene, the sound was excellent; the exception being a piece that was spoken as a whisper, and Richard and I were able to piece to gather its essence after the show.
"Adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s best-selling 2003 novel about an autistic boy’s coming-of-age, this is one of the most fully immersive works ever to wallop Broadway." [NYT]