![]() ![]() The script is missing the fully imagined, immersive amplitude of Rowling’s novels, but she did such a remarkable job in those volumes conjuring a fictional universe that this play nimbly sustains itself simply by situating its canny story line in that world and remaining true to its characters and rules.Īs in the books, the suspense here is electric and nonstop, and it has been cleverly constructed around developments recalling events in the original Potter novels - scenes from the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the penetration of the Ministry of Magic by Harry, Ron and Hermione (using Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves) in Deathly Hallows and a visit to Godric’s Hollow in that same volume. Written by playwright Jack Thorne (and based on an original story by Rowling, Thorne and director John Tiffany), the play picks up where the last novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007), left off, and it flashes forward to Albus’s later years at Hogwarts. ![]() This book version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the script of the hit play that just opened in London, and even though it lacks the play’s much-talked-about special effects, it turns out to be a compelling, stay-up-all-night read. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is about the journey Albus takes while growing up, and the roles he and his best friend, Scorpius (Draco Malfoy’s son), play when dark forces, perhaps in league with Voldemort, once again threaten the fate of the planet. More important, we get to see Harry as a father - and his teenage son Albus’s efforts to cope with the suffocating expectations that come with having a famous father. Now, in a play set 19 years later, we get to see how this legendary hero has settled into middle age as a civil servant in London, working at the Ministry of Magic. In the course of those books, we see a plucky schoolboy, torn by adolescent doubts and confusions, grow into an epic hero, kin to King Arthur, Luke Skywalker and Spider-Man. J K Rowling’s magical seven-volume Harry Potter series is the ultimate bildungsroman, tracing that young wizard’s coming of age, as he not only battles evil but also struggles to come to terms with the responsibilities, losses and burdens of adulthood. ![]()
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