Multimedia

I went to see a play called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. A play about an autistic boy who tries to find the murderer of his next door neighbours dog. Multimedia is heavily incorporated, they use lights, sounds, animation and also text. I think what is amazing about this play, is that it's the use of multimedia which allows you to have an insight of what its like to be autistic, and really get into the mind set of him. For example, at one point in the play he is taking the tube for the first time. Across the walls of the stage are advertisement posters, tube station names and warning signs all flashing and moving across the wall in a chaotic form. On top of that are the tube announcements and voices of people talking. For us, we are able to ignore all these and carry on with our journey but for him, every sound and sign stands out and because there's so much of it, it becomes crowded and confusing. When watching it, it started to make me feel claustrophobic because there was so much going on it felt like there wasn't any time to think. I think that shows how effective multimedia is, because I started to feel how the character was feeling, therefore gained a more in-depth understanding of him, then I would if there hadn't been the use of sound and the screen.