Comments | connielane: All the Wizarding World's a Stage: Initial Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

connielane

All the Wizarding World's a Stage: Initial Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Apr 28, 2018 05:20

First, and most generally, believe the hype. It is phenomenal, truly. Even if you have read the playscript (of which there are two versions now available, the rehearsal version and the final version), you are still going to have your face rocked off. I am very curious to see what happens with the Tony nominations next week (HPCC *just* got in ( Read more... )

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hildigunnur April 28 2018, 14:52:51 UTC

I'm pretty sure what effect had your mind boggled. It's almost two years since I saw the London production and I'm still thinking about those effects (and lots of other stuff from the plays as well).

And I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.

angua9 April 28 2018, 19:22:15 UTC

The effects are jawdroppingly (yes, I did want to snog them) effective and seamless.

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I love that you remember our old arguments!

I think you *should* squee about specifics.

From re-reading the script recently it seems to me that you can't fully appreciate the play if you're not familiar with the Harry Potter series, though watching most of the movies would probably be enough. I'm thinking particularly of the sudden introduction of underground!Snape and the explanation of Delphi's birth and childhood, but there are probably lots more things that I just take for granted that we know/understand.

connielane April 29 2018, 14:00:56 UTC

I love that you remember our old arguments!Dude, I kept seeing moments in the play and having brief flashes to what an H/Her would say about how some line of dialogue or element of the staging *really* indicated H/Hr (despite the overwhelming OBHWF shippiness). Like, "Look how Harry looks away sadly in that scene -- he's so unhappy and wishes he could be with Hermione ( ... )

angua9 April 29 2018, 19:03:35 UTC

Harry kissing her hard when she says not to think about going back without her made me swoon. :D

Sounds great! Can't wait to see a little H/G affection on stage!

connielane April 29 2018, 14:01:13 UTC

- I'm less hostile to the idea of DE!Cedric than I was. I think hearing how shocked and horrified Scorpius is at finding this out really underlines how Wrong it feels, and it *should* feel wrong. And when they sabotage him in the Second Task, it struck me as really nasty how Bagman makes fun of him and everyone laughs at him. Part of why it feels so wrong, of course, is that it's so briefly dealt with in the play, and we don't see what happened between the Triwizard Tournament and the Battle of Hogwarts to make him turn. Nor do we have time to explore what it must have been like for him, after being embarrassed so badly in the first two tasks (not to mention sabotaged, which Cedric *must* have been aware of), to have to see Harry win the Tournament by himself, and come back to the maze with this insane story about Voldemort -- which surely even fewer people believed in that timeline, because he didn't have Cedric's dead body to let people know that *anything* happened at all ( ... )

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steampen May 6 2018, 11:53:29 UTC

I read the play when it came out and I have to admit I really REALLY didn't like it. I'm sure it plays much better on stage, but I had three major issues and I'd love your opinion on them as someone who actually saw it live ( ... )

connielane May 8 2018, 11:03:17 UTC

1) I think the acting and the staging helps a lot here. Albus has a weight on his shoulders that James and the other kids don't. I mean, the weight of that name, for starters! And you really (or at least I did) get the sense that he feels alone; he doesn't like Hogwarts, the other students don't like him, and the only thing in his life is his friendship with Scorpius (a friendship that his father doesn't want him to have for most of the play ( ... )