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
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Sooo slight communication hiccup on my end, and now I've got an extra ticket for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child this Wednesday, 30th August. It's for both Part 1 and Part 2, i.e. the equivalent of a matinee and then the evening play. It's £200 overall (£100 for each part, and good seats!) and starts at 2pm, and you can do your own thing or come ( Read more... )

This latest attack has hit closer to home than any attack before. I have students at Finsbury Park mosque; I have a student living on Seven Sisters Road; it’s two tube stops from me. There were friends-of-friends on Facebook whose mums go to that mosque and hadn’t heard from them yet; an old National Union of Students LGBTQ acquaintance goes there ( Read more... )

Hi guys! Wow, it’s been aaaages. I’ve been working like crazy the last few weeks. It should taper off in the next few weeks, or at least the timetabling should get less crazy. (These are the moments when I wonder if I should try qualifying as a secondary school teacher after all, cos I’d get paid a lot more for my exhaustion. My tax form tells me ( Read more... )

Draco: Did you know that in this other reality - the reality Scorpius saw into - I was Head of Magical Law Enforcement? Maybe this room will be mine soon enough.

*pause*

Draco (deadpan): Mwa ha ha.

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So this is Part 1 of the Why Cursed Child Isn’t Queerbaiting post, because this point kept growing and threatening to overwhelm everything else.

As ever, feel free to disagree strongly and tell me about it! We can still be friends :D Although I’m also going to explain why I disagree with you if I do ( Read more... )

Let’s talk about Cursed Child in script vs production. Now obviously the production adds a vast amount of detail & light and shade to the script that can’t exist in the script alone. That’s theatre. But there are a few elements of that and a few outright changes that I want to document for people.

NB: I’ve seen Cursed Child four times in the last ( Read more... )

I saw Cursed Child again last night ♥ ♥ ♥ It was still atmospheric and exciting and beautiful. One of the phrases I keep using to talk about Cursed Child is Epic Friendship, with those capitals. It’s a phenomenon I’ve seen before but I hadn’t thought of it in quite those terms before. So to define: Epic Friendship, to me, is when the relationship ( Read more... )

( my favourite line of the entire play was )

Guys it’s been a week and I think it’s going to stick. Horrifyingly ( Read more... )