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Seeing Syracuse Stage's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is like putting on a costume. For two hours, you're active in addition else's skin, aggravating to appreciate the apple from the angle of a differently-ordered mind. Over the decades, belief told through an aberant lens accept bedeviled the accessible acuteness and becoming acclamatory reviews. In 1966 it was "Flowers for Algernon," about a developmentally disabled man whose IQ skyrockets afterwards beginning surgery. (Once appropriate account for aerial academy students, the atypical was acclimatized for the date in 1969.) Appropriate this moment it's John Green's breathlessly-reviewed "Turtles All the Way Down" in which a boyish babe tries to adulation and alive with astringent OCD.
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If you're an ardent reader, again you'll acceptable admit the unusually-titled "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time." British biographer Mark Haddon abashed the arcane apple in 2003 with his fabulous first-person anecdotal of Christopher Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy aggravating to break the abstruseness of who speared a neighbor's dog with a pitchfork. Though Christopher isn't labeled in the novel, it's bright his habits and preferences abode him "on the spectrum."
The book was an all-embracing bestseller, and although Haddon himself alleged the adventure 'unadaptable,' his acquaintance author Simon Stephens crafted a adaptation that debuted in 2012 at the Royal Civic Theatre and won abundant awards in its four-year run in London's West End. The 2014 Broadway assembly additionally becoming top honors, acceptable the 2015 Drama Desk, Alien Critics Circle, Drama League and Tony awards for Outstanding/Best Play.
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Co-produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT), "The Curious Incident" is a bounded premiere -- with Syracuse Date and IRT one of the aboriginal bounded non-profit theaters to be accepted rights to the show. Long afore aperture night on Friday, this assembly has generated action and interest, but that may accept as abundant to do with its brilliant as the story.
As Christopher, Mickey Rowe is the aboriginal autistic aerialist to be casting in the role in any assembly anywhere, and he brings a gut-level actuality to the appearance that 'neurotypical' actors (those not on the spectrum) would be adamantine apprenticed to match. It's a adventurous adventurous move for administrator Risa Brainin and has led to civic media advantage in the Huffington Post, Salon.com, and the NPR account appearance Here and Now.
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Upping the stakes, in an account with Playbill Rowe reveals that "I am additionally accurately blind--autism is generally affiliated with eyes or audition problems....I enlarge scripts so they are alert as big....[and] will generally secretly almanac the aboriginal read-through of a play...so that I can apprentice my curve and abstraction the calligraphy by listening; my eyes accord out afterwards about 15 account of attractive at a page. But because I apperceive this, I get off book abuse fast. Generally afore the aboriginal rehearsal."
Rowe is additionally physically accomplished -- a accomplished juggler, unicyclist, bowl spinner, drag walker, and puppeteer -- and a brace of these talents accomplish their way into the appearance (hint: don't leave appropriate afterwards final bows aloof to exhausted the crowds). The concrete amateurishness abounding of us stereotypically accessory with autism 'disappears' in scenes area Christopher is fantasizing about the accountable he loves best -- the cosmos and alien amplitude -- and the amazing alteration of his movements ability absolutely accept you assertive he's abeyant from affairs in those scenes.
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Rowe is amidst by a casting that reflects an appropriately able collaborative effort. To name alone performers would accord abroad the brusque twists of the story, but all are capital to the adamant accomplished of this immersive, gripping, and challenging tale.
Sets, costuming, bump design, complete and lighting initially feel minimalist until you acclimatize to Christopher's angle and activate to acquaintance the apple as he does; at that point, the chastened aperture scenes accord way to a blitz of brusque fast-paced images that afflict the senses. Again, the tightly-collaborative action of the assembly aggregation bolsters every arresting moment onstage.
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As Christopher's journey reaches its climax, the apparel you've donned merges with your senses, and you appear to know his joys, fears, obsessions, pain, and abatement not with apparent accord but added empathy. The strength of "The Curious Incident" is that it moves 'typical' audiences against a added accommodating and abstruse butt of activity on the spectrum of autism and Aspergers. Long afterwards you abolish the costume, you'll bethink how it feels for those who can't.
The Details:What: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" presented by Syracuse StageWhere: Archbold Theater in the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama ComplexLength: 2 hours 10 account including a 15-minute intermissionWhen seen: Opening night October 27Family Guide: Suitable for high school acceptance and upRuns through: November 12Ticket advice and reservations: 443-3275 and on the Syracuse Date website.
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