THE NATIONAL
THEATRE’S PRODUCTION
WINS FIVE TONY AWARDS ON BROADWAY
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night–Time
Sunderland Empire
11th – 15th August 2015
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Joshua
Jenkins (Christopher)
and the cast
of The Curious Incident
of the Dog
in the Night-Time.
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Brinkhoff M+Âgenberg
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The National Theatre’s
production of The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-Time was one of the big winners at this year’s
prestigious Tony Awards® held at the Radio City Music Hall in
New York (7 June 2015), winning five awards - Best Play -
Simon Stephens, Best Direction of a Play - Marianne Elliott, Best
Performance by a leading Actor in a Play - Alex Sharp as Christopher Boone,
Best Lighting Design of a Play – Paule Constable and Best Scenic Design
of a Play – Bunny Christie and Finn Ross.
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Joshua
Jenkins (Christopher)
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Brinkhoff M+Âgenberg
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time,
which started life at the National Theatre’s Cottesloe Theatre in 2012,
transferred to the West End in 2013 (winning seven Olivier Awards) and is now
simultaneously running at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End, on Broadway
at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and on a major
tour of the UK and Ireland.
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Joshua
Jenkins (Christopher)
and Gina
Isaac (Judy).
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Brinkhoff M+Âgenberg
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Marianne
Elliot, who
won the award for Best Direction of a
Play said: “I’m absolutely
thrilled and honoured that we have won five Tony Awards, and that our
show has been as embraced by audiences in New York, as it has been in London
and on this amazing tour of the UK and Ireland, which has been thrilling
audiences since it began late last year. When we first started working on this
show we had no idea whether there would be an audience for it. We were
all working outside our comfort zones, all trying to do something we believed
in utterly but which meant taking risks. It was incredible to see the audience
at the National Theatre, then for that to grow in to the West End. To
have even the slightest idea that it would go to Broadway, let alone to win
these awards is incredible.”
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Gina Isaac,
Joshua Jenkins and Lucas Hare
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Brinkhoff M+Âgenberg
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Simon Stephens, who accepted the award for Best Play
alongside the entire producing team added:
“It's been an incredible collaboration
and the fact the show has been received this well in New York means the world to me.”
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Gina Isaac and Lucas Hare
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Paule Constable, who
won the award for Best Lighting Design
of a Play commented: “Winning
the Tony for Best Lighting for
Curious is completely overwhelming. Curious is a celebration of
collaboration - between all of us as a creative team - and with the audiences
and community of Broadway. The way they have taken this show to their
hearts is life affirming. I am so proud of what we all achieved - of the
whole company - and of all the people who convinced us that this could work and
help to steer us. We had no idea we would end up here!”
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Joshua Jenkins
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Bunny Christie, who received the award
for Best Scenic Design for a play, alongside fellow Scott Finn Ross said
:"The success of this show could never have happened without the teams at The
National Theatre and I am really proud of this big wonderful company."
Finn Ross , added: ‘For the show to be taken onboard like this is
an incredible honour and I am deeply touched.’
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Joshua Jenkins
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The production has been hugely successful during this year’s
Broadway theatre awards season in New
York, also winning 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Play and 6 Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Play.
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Joshua Jenkins
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Christopher, fifteen years old,
stands besides Mrs Shears’ 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 a book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain, and is
exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He
has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched
and distrusts strangers. But his detective work, forbidden by his father,
takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
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Joshua
Jenkins (Christopher) and Gina Isaac (Judy)
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Brinkhoff M+Âgenberg
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time is by Simon
Stephens, adapted from Mark
Haddon’s best-selling novel, directed by Marianne Elliott, designed by Bunny Christie, with lighting by Paule Constable, video design by Finn Ross, movement by Scott
Graham and Steven Hoggett
for Frantic Assembly, music by Adrian
Sutton and sound by Ian
Dickinson for Autograph.
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Joshua
Jenkins (Christopher)
and Stuart
Laing (Ed)
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Brinkhoff M+Âgenberg
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Tickets:
Tickets available in person at
the Box Office on High Street West, the Ticket Centre on 0844 871 3022* or
online at www.ATGtickets.com/Sunderland.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Tour of the UK and Ireland
2015
Curve, Leicester
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
23 June - 4 July
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
New Theatre, Oxford
Liverpool
Empire
Bristol
Hippodrome
Sunderland
Empire
Glasgow
Kings
Leeds
Grand
His Majesty’s Aberdeen
Theatre Royal, Norwich
Sheffield Lyceum
Bord Gais Theatre, Dublin
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Theatre Royal,
Bath
Milton Keynes
Theatre
Lowry, Salford
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