Cursed Child, reaction post in short (spoilers in the cut only)

[azriona]

I finally got my hands on a copy of Cursed Child this weekend... and proceeded to read it in about 6 hours. On the whole, I enjoyed reading it, mostly because I enjoyed figuring out how I'd do the staging and the magical bits as I read them. (So many quick scene changes! So many quick costume changes! Characters exiting on one side of the stage and

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[azriona]

I have no doubt that seeing the play is a vastly different experience than simply reading it - hey, I'm a theatre person, I worked in theatre for 10 years. I totally get that you're not actually supposed to READ Shakespeare, you're supposed to ACT it. And yeah, I suspect watching those first four years play out on stage is vastly different from reading them. Actually, I really liked reading them, I liked trying to figure out how they were done on stage, I liked the little glimpses into the lives of the characters and establishing Scorpius and Albus and James and Rose. It was a fun read, I suspect it would be a fun watch.

But in the end... I think the play was too long. And apart from the plot being (needlessly?) complicated, those sections do lengthen the play, more than perhaps is necessary, when a skillful production team (writer, designer, director, not to mention the actors themselves) could find an easier, faster way to explain a lot of that in other ways.

THEORETICALLY, if we actually get out of here, there's a good chance we'll be in a spot where I can travel to London. I think, in this theoretical world, you will have to finagle a boondoggle to London and I can meet you there and maybe by then we'll be able to get half price tickets to the show, and then we can nit-pick it together afterwards over alcohol/ice cream. :)

[belleweather]

I would love that. I am always, always up for London. :)

And also, are you still in no-assignment purgatory?! I am so, so sorry. I can't imagine how much that sucks. How are you and the little guys doing with that? How is Andrew doing with that?