A lovely new image of Una Stubbs in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, just released by The National Theatre on their Facebook page.

The superb play, adapted from Mark Haddon’s novel, screens around the world on September 6th as part of the National Theatre Live programme. Check here for details on screenings in your region, and click here for our review of the play.

Trailer for the upcoming National Theatre Live broadcast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, screening worldwide on September 6.

Based upon the book by Mark Haddon, the play features a remarkable lead performance by Luke Treadaway and features Sherlock’s Una Stubbs in a supporting role. Click here to find venues in your region.

Read our review of the play here.

A remarkable stage adaptation of the beloved novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a visual feast of theatre, with superb work from all the actors including Sherlock’s Una Stubbs. Read on for our review, as well as an exclusive photo of Una from after the performance.

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Una Stubbs: ‘I just think, Oh, I hope I can be good enough’

From an interview in the Observer newspaper, viewable over at The Guardian website:

“Some people say to me, ‘Oh, did they tell you to play Mrs Hudson like that?’ Well, no, I just came up with it. I was given the script and I got on with it. I just saw her more like a mother figure to these two boys. There’s so much nastiness going on [in the series] that maybe to introduce something a little nicer is a good thing.”

Can she see why Benedict Cumberbatch has become a sex symbol? “Yes, I can because he’s just so unusual. He’s joli laid. One minute, you think [she breaks off and does a little moue of distaste], but then the next minute you think, ‘Oh, you’re so gorgeous.’”

Read the entire interview with Una, with a focus on her new play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the National Theatre, here on The Guardian website.

UK: Public booking for The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time with Una Stubbs is now open at National Theatre.

Description from Amazon
The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon’s ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator.

Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism—every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get. When the dog next door is killed with a garden fork, Christopher becomes quietly persistent in his desire to find out what has happened and tugs away at the world around him until a lot of secrets unravel messily.