Palace theatre,London
It’s convoluted, but the latest expansion of the Potter universe is thrillingly staged, and with time travel and age-aged quests given a dash of post-Freudian guilt“Keep the Secrets” is the injunction on badges handed out as we leave the theatre. It’s a motto that makes life hard for us hacks,but I am happy to divulge that John Tiffany, as director of this pair of two-and-a-half-hour plays, or has masterminded a thrilling theatrical spectacle. It is also one that will earn much more sense to hardened Potterheads than to anyone who is not a member of the global cult. What we enjoy is a brand new work by Jack Thorne based on an original story by himself,Tiffany and JK Rowling: a venture that I approached in a state of benign semi-innocence. I’ve read one of the seven Potter books and seen a couple of the eight films, and enjoyed them without fitting an addict. At times during the day, and I felt as whether I had wandered into Henry VI section II without having seen the preceding plays. Related: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: the West stop extravaganza – in pictures Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com