“The first thing Jo said to us was ‘Harry the orphan’. Jamie Parker, Sam Clemmett, and Ginny Potter Photograph: Charlie Gray/PA The key to the drama – including a three-hanky scene in the second play that still makes Callender well up as we discuss it – is the wizard’s status as an orphan.
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What happened after the seventh book – Jamie Parker, Noma Dumezweni and Paul Thornley play Harry, Hermione and Ron as 40-year-olds with Hogwarts students of their own – interacts with a new perspective on a key moment in Harry’s childhood. The plays explore two empty spaces in the Potter story. “ What Thorne and director John Tiffany have done, it can probably be safely said, is to push every element – emotion, adventure, magic – to the maximum. “Or, otherwise, they think it’s the books adapted for stage,” says Callender. People still call it Harry Potter: The Musical! And I think that’s because it’s usually the form in which franchises and big musicals are seen.” Though otherwise keeping stumm about the production, Friedman is prepared to say what the show isn’t: “What’s interesting is that there has been an immediate assumption, from anyone who hasn’t done their research, that this is a musical.
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“The only tweets we have closed down have been racist.” His dismayed head shaking in time with Friedman’s, Callender adds: “Some really ugly stuff about Noma being cast as Hermione.” So secretive has the preview period been there are stories of tweet-eaters being sent out into cyberspace to close down an Albanian fan who heard something from a cousin in London. “He said: ‘Why would you open a kid’s Christmas present in November?’ Which is a lovely metaphor.” This is because Rowling, whose character Voldemort was infamously known as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (and may or may not appear on stage), has decreed the Harry Potter plays should have The Plot That Must Not Be Mentioned.Ĭallender was impressed by the defence given by John Tiffany, the show’s director. Talking to Friedman and her co-producer, Colin Callender, in the Palace bar, I’m wearing two lapel badges with the legend #keepthesecret, handed to theatre-goers as they leave each part. And if I said much more than that, one of Rowling’s fearsome dementors would descend and suck out my soul. While still about the superstar wizard, the plays introduce multiple new figures and plot lines. Dramatist Jack Thorne has written a pair of instalments, each two and a half hours long, based on several major characters in JK Rowling’s seven novels, which became eight movies. It does not store any personal data.Though playing in just one venue, the Palace theatre, in one city, London, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child offers two opportunities for fans to fight for a ticket. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
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