Despite all the positive reviews of the award winning National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, I found the whole thing quite underwhelming. The first half I found particularly tiresome. OK, I know the book so well, but I was hoping for a more intimate and character driven adaptation. Instead we have a script that so entirely replicates the book, anyone could have extracted what seemed like the amateurish dialogue.
The human aspects of the story were then so overwhelmed by the set, special effects and cast movement that any kind of emotional impact was totally lost. The actors did their best. But at 27, Joshua Jenkins was never convincing in the lead role as the 15 year old Christopher. Although he played the part very well,
I went to a sell out matinee performance and soon found out that you had to be either under eighteen or over sixty. Lots of older school children enjoying being out of the classroom. They got the best deal.
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