"I don't know how their scenes play under Tiffany's direction, and if they lean into queerbaiting or if they can take it to a different place- I don't remember if the text has flexibility to allow both interpretations or not."
From friends who have seen it, the comment was that it is directed in a way that they read the action as the two boys are a couple who don't know it yet (very theatre literate types), whether that was an intentional directorial decision or not, but I don't see how it can't be to be honest.
We directed a production of Twelfth Night at school a while back, and every actor on that stage (and we had ladies in waiting and soldiers and sailors etc because it was a school production) had some sort of unspoken love for someone else (if not one of the characters with something written in of course), we brought it up, but the kids worked it out themselves. I adored Olivia's Lady in Waiting who was hopelessly in love with Malvolio, her heart was broken more than his was. All non verbal, it was gorgeous.
I love everything about that Twelfth Night idea. EVERYTHING. :D How smart.
And yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me as the way to play those two characters in HPatCC. I think S goes after Rose because he thinks that's the thing to do- he doesn't know her, doesn't have a history with her outside of animosity. If he can go out with Rose, it's a symbol that he's accepted and doing the thing that he's supposed to do- I don't see it as genuinely affirmative of heterosexuality at all. I think Albus and Scorpius are about to sort some things out between them, and soon. :D
I work with kids that age, in a similar environment (without the magic and timetravel of course), so everything about them not having worked it out yet makes total sense to me (particularly in a culture with a small population, where young people are not encouraged to look outside that culture for partners).
I don't think the actor playing Malvolio even realised that one of the girls had made that choice as an actor, it was beautiful! And our Sebastian and Antonio, "of course they are lovers miss, Antonio chases everything and Sebastian is as surprised as anyone that he falls for Olivia"
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From friends who have seen it, the comment was that it is directed in a way that they read the action as the two boys are a couple who don't know it yet (very theatre literate types), whether that was an intentional directorial decision or not, but I don't see how it can't be to be honest.
We directed a production of Twelfth Night at school a while back, and every actor on that stage (and we had ladies in waiting and soldiers and sailors etc because it was a school production) had some sort of unspoken love for someone else (if not one of the characters with something written in of course), we brought it up, but the kids worked it out themselves. I adored Olivia's Lady in Waiting who was hopelessly in love with Malvolio, her heart was broken more than his was. All non verbal, it was gorgeous.
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And yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me as the way to play those two characters in HPatCC. I think S goes after Rose because he thinks that's the thing to do- he doesn't know her, doesn't have a history with her outside of animosity. If he can go out with Rose, it's a symbol that he's accepted and doing the thing that he's supposed to do- I don't see it as genuinely affirmative of heterosexuality at all. I think Albus and Scorpius are about to sort some things out between them, and soon. :D
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I don't think the actor playing Malvolio even realised that one of the girls had made that choice as an actor, it was beautiful! And our Sebastian and Antonio, "of course they are lovers miss, Antonio chases everything and Sebastian is as surprised as anyone that he falls for Olivia"
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