TJ Drama’s Curious Incident: Playing into Inclusion
November 11, 2019
This weekend from November 14 to November 17, TJ Drama will present The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a play which features a teenager with autism as the main character. We asked TJ Drama members about how this play provides insight into those living with a mental condition.
![Taking over the blaring crowd with their sound, the trombones add a commanding presence to the marching band’s musical ensemble during the Back to School Bash. “You get a lot of adrenaline when you’re playing,” junior John Yao. “You just finish a really hard piece and the crowd goes, yeah, [TJMC] is so cool. You have three or four moments during your show so it’s pretty cool.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tjmcp1-600x479.png)
![During a dance to a mashup of “Wannabe” and “Vogue,” junior Mandy Huang, bottom middle, lifts her hands at the end, striking a pose with the other junior dancers. “At first, [MEX] was stressful because practices went by so quickly and it felt like I would never be able to memorize the choreography, but the choreographers were amazing,” Huang said. “When we were about halfway to Homecoming, turnout to practices was so low that one of our choreographers brought bomb pops to try and lure people back into MEX.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_3858-1-600x400.jpg)
![Blocking your way into the Hopper Commons is this sign that discourages other students from eating lunch here. Every Thursday, this sign makes sure that AP physics students have the ideal environment to focus on the SLOB. “[Last week’s] SLOB had a very high success rate, much higher than I actually thought,” Mark Hannum, the Optics Lab Director, said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pasted-image-0-21-600x450.png)
