The production begins with Turner intending to stage a play where they get to tell the stories from all seven Harry Potter books, while he leaves the job of hiring the cast and getting the props to his friend Clarkson. The play, which is the eighth official story in the Potter saga, receives its world premiere in London’s West End at the Palace Theater on July 30, reveals BBC.
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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling collaborates with playwright Jack Thorne (“Let the Right One In”) and Tony Award-winning director John Tiffany for the two-part play, which continues the story of boy wizard Harry Potter, now a husband and father, and his son, Albus, as the two struggle with the weight of the past.
Harry Potter is now an overworked Ministry of Magic employee and a father of three (which would explain his more realistic look, wrinkles and all).
Even Draco Malfoy got to have a happy ending in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, or at least a family of his own. He and Hermione are now married and have a daughter, Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete). The Hogwarts robes, in particular, seem to have received a redesign from the original we all know and love.
Sam Clemmett was announced this week as the character Albus Severus Potter – the cursed child referred to in the title.
Incidentally, it’s the academic-minded witch who has had the biggest transformation from her film portrayal, with a black actress named Noma Dumezweni taking the reigns from Watson.
Jamie Parker dons the glasses, and scar, of Harry Potter. The play also introduces Draco’s son, Scorpius Malfoy, whom we see here as played by Anthony Boyle.
Patrons were advised about the bag restrictions up front, she said, because “like in most theatres, the cloakroom space is tiny”.
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She added: “Ron in his forties isn’t very different from Ron in his teens, except his feet hurt a bit more”.
