Still Game's Scott Reid to star in THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

Still Game's Scott Reid is to star as Christopher Boone in The National Theatre's production of the Olivier award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time when it returns to the King's in August next year as part of a major UK and Ireland opening at the Lowry in Salford on 21 January.

The Glasgow-born actor joins Glasgow-based Lucianne McEvoy as his teacher Siobhan, Emma Beattie as Judy, Wilmslow and Manchester-educated David Michaels as his father Ed, Debra Michaels as Mrs Alexander and Bristol trained Eliza Collings as Mrs Shears.

The company is completed by Oliver Boot (Roger Shears), Newcastle-upon-Tyne born and Bristol trained Crystal Condie, (Punk Girl) Pontypridd born Emma-Jane Goodwin (ensemble), Joel Harper-Jackson (Mr Thompson), Leeds born and Stockport based Bruce McGregor (Reverend Peters), Birmingham born Sam Newton (alternate Christopher), James Parkes (ensemble), Aberdare-born and Pontypridd educated Jams Thomas (ensemble) and Danielle Young (ensemble).

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is adapted from Mark Haddon's best-selling book by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott. The production is 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. The Associate Director is Manchester-educated Elle While.

National Theatre producer Kash Bennett said: 'We were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic reception from audiences around the UK and Ireland when we toured The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in 2014-15, playing to almost 400,000, and are delighted to take this beautiful and inventive show to new venues and make a return visits to others in 2017.'

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time received seven Olivier Awards in 2013, including Best New Play, Best Director, Best Design, Best Lighting Design and Best Sound Design and five Tony Awards on Broadway including Best Play.

Whilst on this extensive tour, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will simultaneously continue its run at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End and is on its first tour of the United States.

The show tells the story of Christopher Boone, who is fifteen years old. He stands beside Mrs Shears' dead dog, which 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.

Marianne Elliott is an Associate Director of the National Theatre where her productions have included: Husbands and Sons (at the NT's Dorfman Theatre and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester), War Horse (co-directed with Tom Morris and touring the UK from September 2017), The Light Princess, Port, Season's Greetings, All's Well that Ends Well, Harper Regan, Saint Joan (Olivier Award for Best Revival, South Bank Show Award for Theatre), and Pillars of the Community (Evening Standard Award for Best Director). Marianne was consultant director on The Elephantom for the National Theatre and also directed Sweet Bird of Youth for the Old Vic with Kim Cattrall. Marianne's next show for the National Theatre is Angels in America which begins rehearsals in January 2017. .

Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador in 2005, and his last novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. His latest book is The Pier Falls, a collection of stories. He lives in Oxford.

Simon Stephens' other plays for the National Theatre include: The Threepenny Opera, Port (originally produced at the Royal Exchange and directed by Marianne Elliott) at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre, Harper Regan and On the Shore of the Wide World (co-production with Royal Exchange, Manchester: Olivier Award for Best New Play). His many other plays include Carmen Disruption, Heisenberg, Birdland, Blindsided, Three Kingdoms, Wastwater, Punk Rock, Seawall, Pornography, Country Music, Christmas and Herons; A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (co-written with Robert Holman and David Eldridge); an adaptation of Jon Fosse's I Am the Wind and Motortown. His version of A Doll's House for the Young Vic transferred to the West End and then New York in 2014. Simon is an Associate at the Lyric, Hammersmith and The Royal Court Theatre.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by visiting www.atgtickets.com/glasgow (bkg fee).

Tour of the UK and Ireland 2017

The Lowry, Salford 21 January - 4 February 2017

Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury 7 - 11 February 2017

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh 20 - 25 February 2017

Grand Theatre, Leeds 28 February - 4 March 2017

Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury 6 - 11 March 2017

Bath Theatre Royal 14 - 25 March 2017

Mayflower Theatre, Southampton 27 March - 1 April 2017

Nottingham Theatre Royal 4 - 15 April 2017

Grand Opera House, Belfast 18 - 22 April 2017

Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin 25 - 29 April 2017

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff 2 - 6 May 2017

Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield 9 - 20 May 2017

New Theatre, Oxford 22 - 27 May 2017

Theatre Royal, Newcastle 30 May - 10 June 2017

Bristol Hippodrome 13 - 17 June 2017

Theatre Royal, Plymouth 26 June - 1 July 2017

Birmingham Hippodrome 3 - 8 July 2017

Venue Cymru, Llandudno 11 - 15 July 2017

Cliffs Pavilion, Southend 17 - 22 July 2017

Liverpool Empire 25 - 29 July 2017

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford 31 July - 5 August 2017

His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen 8 - 12 August 2017

Kings Theatre, Glasgow 14 - 19 August 2017

Norwich Theatre Royal 29 August - 2 September 2017

Milton Keynes Theatre 4 - 16 September 2017

2014/15 Production Photo by Brinkhoff Mogenburg

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