When I watched the builders wire everything up, it looked like synapses and neurones all interwoven. Somewhere people would come in and think ‘ That looks cool’. The book is quite anarchic, and I felt the show should feel fun. “I was looking at gaming rooms and nightclubs. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. We needed to be in a world where Christopher would want to be, and that would be a world of technology. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. But I felt we needed to key into maths and science. “Marianne had initially imagined it might be set somewhere like a school hall. Haddons first foray into adult novels tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Christopher Boone, who finds you guessed it a dead dog in his. We’d storyboarded everything with little figures. Marianne is so thorough: we had a version of how it could work before we got into rehearsal.
“I spent a long period with just Marianne and the model, cooking up the show. It was directed by Marianne Elliott at the National Theatre, London, in 2013 and continues to tour. Christie won Olivier and Tony awards for designing Simon Stephens’ play, based on Mark Haddon’s novel about Christopher Boone, a teenager who has a condition similar to Asperger syndrome.
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