The thrillingly staged New York production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is about a 15-year-old autistic savant. One of his quirks is an absolute belief in truth-telling which to his thinking turns even a metaphor into a lie. And so he explains why he feels his teacher's example of metaphors into untruths:
He was the apple of her eye. (Christopher: imagining an apple in someone’s eye doesn’t have
anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget
what the person was talking about.a pig is not like a day)
They had a skeleton in the cupboard. (Christopher: People do not have skeletons in their cupboards)
He was the apple of her eye. (Christopher: imagining an apple in someone’s eye doesn’t have
anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget hat the person was talking about.
But though comparison phrases don't get a good review from Christopher, our review of Adam Sharp's performance and this unusual play is an A-plis.
To read all about it www.curtainup.com/curiousincidentbway14.html
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