harry potter and the cursed child book by jk rowling

( Source)Īnd, although some fans didn't realize that the eighth book is, in fact, a script (whoops-always read that fine print) the play itself was well reviewed. Knowing that all of Harry's approximately 1.4 billion fans don't have the opportunity to travel to London for the stage production, Rowling published the Special Rehearsal Edition Script, spawning midnight release parties the likes of which we hadn't seen since 2007. The different faces emphasize that this isn't your father's Harry Potter-and yes, they're one more reminder that Harry Potter is old enough to be a dad. Initially directed by John Tiffany, who's directed Once and The Glass Menagerie, the play features a new cast of actors playing beloved characters. Yeah, there's magic and mayhem.īut here wizarding takes a backseat to…parenthood. This is way different from any of the other Potter tales. Rowling, playwright Jack Thorne wrote a sprawling, epic, two-part, four-act play about Harry's relationship to his middle child, Albus Severus Potter. Beginning eighteen years after the conclusion of the final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Cursed Child shows us how Harry is adapting to his greatest challenge, a struggle more difficult than vanquishing the most evil wizard in the world: parenthood.īased on a story by J.K.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the canonical eighth story in the Harry Potter universe. We've seen musicals based on movies and musicals that got turned into movies.īut we've never seen anything like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child…and not just because we'll be waiting half a decade to get tickets to the show. We've seen depressing plays about death, sales, and death of salesmen. We've seen Shakespearean theater with sword fights and gender-bending. There are more types of plays than there are types of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Introduction The Play's The Thing

Harry potter and the cursed child book by jk rowling