The playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany collaborated with the boy wizard’s beloved creator J.K. Rowling on the story, which catches up with the series’ hero 19 years later.
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As the new Harry Potter play opened in London this past week, J.K. Rowling told her millions of fans that she’s done telling the story of the boy wizard. Harry Potter madness was set ablaze one final time during last night’s premiere of “Harry Potter & The Cursed Child“, a London-based play that follows the series’ titular character as an adult with three children.
Rowling – who wore golden winged shoes, reminiscent of the golden snitch she created for the magical game of quidditch – said she hoped the show would attract “people who have never been to the theater before”.
It’s a big weekend for Harry Potter fans.
The play will show exclusively at London’s Palace Theater but fret not if you can not make the trek across the pond to see the highly-anticipated show.
It’s the script of the new hit play that just premiered in London, now in book form.
“I’d love it to go wider than that”, Rowling said, according to The Guardian. Instead, it’s the script of the play of the same name, now running in London. “That’s my only expectation, that it’s going to be so good”, said Harry Potter fan Jennifer Burchett. The story took place nineteen years after the events of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.
She said: “You’ve been wonderful for years at keeping Harry Potter secrets so you don’t spoil the books for readers who came after you”.
The play is about five hours long and is sold out until May of next year.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is now set to run through December 2017 at London’s Palace Theatre. Rowling has also since penned spinoff story Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, written a series of short stories and posts for web domain Pottermore and even re-imagined the story’s Hogwarts school as an American institution.
