The Curious Incident Of The Dog In This Night-time

In today's lesson we started on the play "The Curious Incident Of the dog in the night Time". We started with what would be the start of the play. We walked around the room repeating mathematical terms out loud, this represented Christopher's (the main character in the play) busy mind. After a short while we would begin to walk towards each other and then rebound off them whilst doing a large pushing movement of the hand. We would continue to do this 5 times with different people. Once we had done this 5 times we would then walk towards someone and just before we touched them we would turn the opposite way whilst crouching and tucking our heads in our hands. Again we would do this 5 times, all the while we would constantly chant our mathematical equation. Once we had done all of this we would then crouch in a ball on the floor with Christopher in front of us. Once Christopher stood we all sat up. We were told to type our phone number on a giant invisible keypad in front of us. So group by group we would do this. When reflecting back on the opening scene we created, I can see how all of this is a reflection of Christopher's mind. The constant chanting of words other people say around him that he doesn't quite understand. Never touching people and the fear of being touched. The frustration that literally brings him to his knees. And then his way to calm himself down, repeating numbers over and over in his head. I did some research into Christopher's condition, to get a better understanding of how his brain works. I found a website that explain's autism in a video