Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Title: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Author: Haddon, Mark
Price: $19.99

This schools' edition of Mark Haddon's multi-award-winning novel adapted for the stage of the National Theatre by Simon Stephens is perfect for Key Stages 3 and 4.

Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain and is exceptional at maths, but he is ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But Christopher's detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that turns his world upside-down.


This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:

* meets the requirements at KS3 and GCSE
* features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis
* places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities
* will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3
* will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

Simon Stephens's adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, award-winning novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale.


REVIEWS
\"Playwright Simon Stephens does for Mark Haddon's brilliant cult novel what David Edgar once did for Nicholas Nickleby: and he makes it an ensemble piece about putting on a play ... This is a profoundly moving play about adolescence, fractured families, mathematics, colours and lights.\" - Michael Coveney, Independent

\"This adaptation by the acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens is intensely, innately theatrical; it is also funny and extremely moving ... it sets the constancy of the text - from which the actors quote - against the agile conjuring of the here-and-now.\" - Laura Thompson, Telegraph

\"Playwright Simon Stephens, for a start, solves the problem confronting any adapter ... this is a highly skilful adaptation\" - Michael Billington, Guardian

\"Simon Stephens seems the perfect choice to adapt it for the stage ... Stephens exults in imagining misfits - in all their sincerity and weirdness. True to the original novel, his version drips with ideas\" - Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 25/04/2013
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408185216
Publishing status: AU In-stock Distributor