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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party " review by Susannah Clapp

Cottesloe; Donmar; Criterion, LondonIt's almost perverse. To take a story whose hero cannot lie, for whom metaphor is a foreign land, and put it on that most metaphorical of places, the stage. To take a novel in which the narrator speaks directly to the reader and give it the bounce of drama. This is, you might think, an enterprise doomed to plodding literalism or to strained vivacity. Think again. The co-director of…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on August 4, 2012

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