One of the first things Stephens did was give much of Christopher's narrative to the character's special education teacher, Siobhan. Christopher decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog, but uncovers much more than he expects - about his parents, his neighbors and about himself. The book begins as kind of a detective novel. The playwright was hesitant but intrigued, and gave himself a month, he says, "to put myself in a position where, after four weeks of trying, I could ring him up and say, 'Mark, you know this great, unadaptable novel of yours? Guess what? It's completely unadaptable!' And I think because I had that freedom, I approached it with a sense of play." Seven years ago, Haddon apparently changed his mind about the book's unadaptability and approached Stephens, a friend, about rewriting it for the stage. And he can't understand anything more than the literal meaning of whatever's said to him."ġ00 Best Books Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen NovelsĪnd that was British playwright Simon Stephens' biggest challenge. Right after the book was published, Haddon told WHYY's Fresh Air, "He has a serious difficulty with life in that he really doesn't empathize with other human beings. The voice of Christopher, the book's narrator, is so specific, so quirky, so smart but so unable to deal with the world around him that the reader needs to fill in the blanks. "And I had, at one point in my life, grown so tired of novels which were clearly written with a view to selling the film rights, that I kind of judged my own writing by its unadaptability," he says. Haddon told a videographer for London's National Theatre, where the play premiered, that he couldn't imagine his book ever being adapted for the stage or screen. The book is told entirely from the perspective of a brilliant 15-year-old boy who happens to be autistic, and a stage adaptation, which has been an award-winning hit in London, just opened on Broadway to rave reviews. Alex Sharp stars as 15-year-old Christopher in the theater adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.īritish novelist Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time became an international best-seller after it was published in England in 2003.
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