Harry Potter #8

[ganimede]

I just received a rather interesting email from Waterstones and I thought that some of you might find it suitably interesting too.

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[hobbitblue]

I got the same email, not sure i'm interested, a script books a bit different, maybe it'll lead to performances tho?

[ganimede]

Like the show in the West End that opens on 30th July? That's why they've printed the script - apparently there were so many fans disappointed because they wouldn't be able to see the play but now everyone has access to the content of it at least.

[hobbitblue]

I Meant further performances :P you know, like am dram companies doing Discworld etc

[ganimede]

There are am dram performances of Discworld? I wasn't even aware there was a professional one! But knowing how tightly controlled anything to do with Harry Potter is, I rather doubt there'll be anything outside of the West End or Broadway. Certainly not for a while anyway.

[hobbitblue]

Stephen Briggs stage adaptations were published not long ago and a quick google finds a performance of Mort in Brisbane, Guards Guards adapted and performed in 1999 by a Geoffrey Cush..oh and youtube has a full performance of Wyrd Sisters by Falmouth and Exeter College Cornwall (going by the delighfrul acronym FECCLES :) ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdYihRkejsg

You've likely got a point on the Warner stranglehold of Potter tho :(

[ganimede]

I had no idea. I knew about the TV series for Soul Music and Hogfather but that was about as far as it went. I was never a big fan of Discworld though, couldn't really get into them.

FECCLES is an excellent acronym.

[hobbitblue]

There's tv versions of others too, tho i never really got into them, oh and Wyrd Sisters as animation... I've always been a huge Discworld fan from very early on (think i started reading them when he'd only done the first 3)