Hi Alexander. Some quick answers:Yes Alex Sharp is a good actor. No issues there.Unconvincing? Yes, and in indefinable ways. I tried. Each actor is different, each brings new things. I can only say that part of what an autistic actor can bring is new aspects, shades, subtleties of autisticness, all of which adds to the representation. What any one individual autistic actor might bring...? Who can say? Put an autistic in there and find out!The audience reception is relevant, yes. But they come with assumptions and see through lenses coloured by past experience. Are they getting a "true" picture? Are they expecting to? Should they expect to?I think its fair to say that most non-autistics have quite a limited experience with autistics. I think it is also fair to say that most of the audience have some expectation that they are going to in a sense learn about the autistic mind. That is probably going to be an inevitable and unavoidable aspect. This is something humans do - we build our understanding based on multiple experiences. When those experiences are few in number, each incident gains significance in building that internal understanding. Nobody wants or expects this play to become or be understood as a universal absolute depiction of "the autistic mind" as if that were a single homogenous type... but let's at least allow every opportunity for those aspects that *are* depicted every chance to be more truly autistic.Can a non-autistic actor play an autistic character. Sure. Using research and consultation? Sure.Can an autistic actor do that job? Sure... based on years of lived experience to add subtleties and nuances to the part that even they may never be aware of. Every actor brings a little of themself to every role they play. That is part of the delight in seeing ten different people play King Lear for example, similar to the pleasure of listening to ten different pianists play Chopin's Nocturnes. Its not just the thing in itself, beautiful as it may be, but the thing as presented in this instance in this place by this person to these people... In the case of 'Curious Incident' there is an opportunity to add something that adds depth of autisticness. I think that is something we should be reaching for rather than questioning.
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