Cursed Child today!
Going to see Cursed Child today!!!
(It is, I believe, my ninth time. Only three in the last year though, so, y’know, it’s getting better?)
This time I’m seeing it with my family, for my dad’s birthday. They managed to get tickets thanks to my nudge (thanks to
januarium’s nudge) a year ago, and today’s the day!
How they react - and how I react to their reaction - will tell me a lot about whether I should try to get them to take me to see Hamilton (which I’ve seen once already, in previews) for my birthday next February. I love this play a lot! Obvs with CC I have to be more used to people disliking it ;) although I’ve yet to meet a person who saw it onstage without at least kind of liking it. Certainly the reactions from critics and non-fandom fans have been, like, Olivier-award-record-breakingly-positive.
I’ve been ramping up emotional energy this week to see my family and spend all day with them, because that can be a bit rough, but right now I’m just like CURSED CHILD AGAIN :D :D :D
Plus, the joy of seeing it with people who’re unspoiled! IT’S GONNA BE GREAT. I’m hoping to sit in the middle of my family so I can enjoy their reactions to Various Unnamed Big Moments :D
I am a little bit concerned, too, like… okay, so this emotional reaction took a while to form, even if it’s a comparison I saw immediately, but… I’m someone with two siblings, and parents who are good people who tried hard, but were clearly much better at parenting my siblings than me. (I was also a more difficult child.) It wasn’t really like the Harry & Albus situation but like… yeah IDK, seeing Lady Bird with my mum and sisters turned out to be a mistake. WE WILL SEE.
I 100000% bet my mum cries at the end. For a play in which only one not-very-important character newly dies in the real world - much as I, no lie, adore Craig - it’s got a really fucking tragic climax. But then that’s a big part of why I love it, how well and deeply it deals with the reverberations of trauma. A story about parents and friends, about how their loss or absence makes it so hard to become a person, about a generation who lived through war and the next generation who’re shaped by their parents’ reactions to war without having seen it - I mean, how could it end any way but Harry crying for his parents, but Albus seeing Harry’s loss and losing his grandparents? All of them, parents and children and friends, brought back to the original sin of the Potter universe and Harry’s central loss?
God it’s so perfectly constructed.
This is the LAST TIME with the second cast. Complete coincidence but I’m very pleased. It’s also pretty nice because I wasn’t all that impressed with the second cast the two times I saw them before, but I didn’t think they were awful - it’s exciting to get to see them having had a year to inhabit those roles, without actually having to pay £80 to think, ‘I wish Noma Dumezweni would come back’, lol.
CURSED CHILD YOU GUYS
(FYI: in general I love disagreement, but this is not the moment to tell me how much you hate it.)
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(It is, I believe, my ninth time. Only three in the last year though, so, y’know, it’s getting better?)
This time I’m seeing it with my family, for my dad’s birthday. They managed to get tickets thanks to my nudge (thanks to
januarium’s nudge) a year ago, and today’s the day!
How they react - and how I react to their reaction - will tell me a lot about whether I should try to get them to take me to see Hamilton (which I’ve seen once already, in previews) for my birthday next February. I love this play a lot! Obvs with CC I have to be more used to people disliking it ;) although I’ve yet to meet a person who saw it onstage without at least kind of liking it. Certainly the reactions from critics and non-fandom fans have been, like, Olivier-award-record-breakingly-positive.
I’ve been ramping up emotional energy this week to see my family and spend all day with them, because that can be a bit rough, but right now I’m just like CURSED CHILD AGAIN :D :D :D
Plus, the joy of seeing it with people who’re unspoiled! IT’S GONNA BE GREAT. I’m hoping to sit in the middle of my family so I can enjoy their reactions to Various Unnamed Big Moments :D
I am a little bit concerned, too, like… okay, so this emotional reaction took a while to form, even if it’s a comparison I saw immediately, but… I’m someone with two siblings, and parents who are good people who tried hard, but were clearly much better at parenting my siblings than me. (I was also a more difficult child.) It wasn’t really like the Harry & Albus situation but like… yeah IDK, seeing Lady Bird with my mum and sisters turned out to be a mistake. WE WILL SEE.
I 100000% bet my mum cries at the end. For a play in which only one not-very-important character newly dies in the real world - much as I, no lie, adore Craig - it’s got a really fucking tragic climax. But then that’s a big part of why I love it, how well and deeply it deals with the reverberations of trauma. A story about parents and friends, about how their loss or absence makes it so hard to become a person, about a generation who lived through war and the next generation who’re shaped by their parents’ reactions to war without having seen it - I mean, how could it end any way but Harry crying for his parents, but Albus seeing Harry’s loss and losing his grandparents? All of them, parents and children and friends, brought back to the original sin of the Potter universe and Harry’s central loss?
God it’s so perfectly constructed.
This is the LAST TIME with the second cast. Complete coincidence but I’m very pleased. It’s also pretty nice because I wasn’t all that impressed with the second cast the two times I saw them before, but I didn’t think they were awful - it’s exciting to get to see them having had a year to inhabit those roles, without actually having to pay £80 to think, ‘I wish Noma Dumezweni would come back’, lol.
CURSED CHILD YOU GUYS
(FYI: in general I love disagreement, but this is not the moment to tell me how much you hate it.)
This was originally posted at https://lokifan.dreamwidth.org/374180.html. Comment wherever you like :)