The show tells the story of Christopher Boon’s quest to discover who killed Wellington, his neighbors Dog, as his investigations go on more mysteries unfold eventually taking him to London to find his Mother whom he thought dead.  Christopher is autistic and sees the world differently.

 

The video in the show is used to highlight Christophers unique point view of the world and the problems he has with processing everyday information we take for granted.  He finds great comfort in numbers so the design is evolved out of numbers and breaking the world down in to clear and simple graphic layers sometimes exploding into a violent surge with fantastic movement sequences by Scott Grham and Steven Hogart of Frantic Assembly.

 

At other time lines lead Christopher around the stage appear both projected in in a grid of LED’s fitted with into the floor and walls of the set.  This system of LED could be pixel mapped by both video and lighting simultaneously.

 

The show was originally staged in the round in August 2012 at the National Theatre in the Cottesloe to a run that was sold out before the show even opened.  In March 2013 is then transferred to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue in a redesigned end-on configuration where it is currently set to play until 4th Jan 2014.

 

Press:

"It’s a perfect playground for Finn Ross’s inspired video projections and Paule Constable’s light show, which at times, with Adrian Sutton’s soundscape, feels like a shock and awe approach to delving into the wonders and fears of Christopher’s singular mind"

     - Metro

 

"There's no point in resisting – and there's no need"

    - Guardian

 

"Marianne Elliott’s beautiful, ingenious and deeply-felt production has now transferred triumphantly to the West End"

     - Telegraph