a whole lot of years later
I am done with work for the week because I'm going to Nineworlds. Super exciting! But before I do, I have a post I wanted to make, just like it's 2005, about Harry Potter.
People, last weekend I got to see Cursed Child in the theatre and it was AWESOME.
Guys, it was magical. It was much, much closer to seeing the books in real life than the movies ever were, for me: I enjoyed the movies, but they were never the thrill that the books were.
The play? Had that thrill. Even though I'd read the script.
I wouldn't say it's perfect, because there were and are some arguments to made about plotting and some dialogue choices and also WHERE WAS NEVILLE. But the books have a bunch of those exact same flaws. That didn't stop it being literally and metaphorically magical. The staging is just... incredible. There were multiple bits where everyone in the theatre just GASPED. I am a massive spoiler queen, but I really would not want to deny anyone that AHHHHH! moment where something unexpected is just perfect. There were multiple bits where I still don't really know how they did that and don't care, because it worked. It was ridiculously, absurdly like watching actual magic actually happen. The magic of theatre.
(When this finally goes to other venues, I have no idea how anywhere with less money or less fancy facilities is gonna manage it....)
And I loved a lot of the character stuff. The Snape stuff, as much as I wished we had Alan Rickman playing him, worked much better than the books did to explain him. Harry was perfectly cast and I could see Harry being this person, after all this time. Hermione was perfect, and so was the girl playing Rose, who had to look and act like Hermione too and DID. Perfection. And the two main new characters, Albus and Scorpius, are delightful and exactly what we didn't get from the books, and I ship them so hard.
...and the great thing is, I can just picture them telling him and Harry that they're together, and Draco just going to Harry, "Well, I suppose this was inevitable."
Actually, I think the only thing I was a little disappointed by was the girl playing Delphi, who I just wasn't intimated by at all when we really ought to be. But at least some of that might be because our seats were really high up at the back, so I was literally looking down at her instead of craning up. I would love to go again and see it from closer in: mostly I didn't feel like we missed out, and we definitely got a great view of some spectacular stagecraft, but I bet it works even better closer in.
Anyone else want to AHHHHHH with me?!
Also also, if any of you want invites to Imzy, please yell. I have codes!
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People, last weekend I got to see Cursed Child in the theatre and it was AWESOME.
Guys, it was magical. It was much, much closer to seeing the books in real life than the movies ever were, for me: I enjoyed the movies, but they were never the thrill that the books were.
The play? Had that thrill. Even though I'd read the script.
I wouldn't say it's perfect, because there were and are some arguments to made about plotting and some dialogue choices and also WHERE WAS NEVILLE. But the books have a bunch of those exact same flaws. That didn't stop it being literally and metaphorically magical. The staging is just... incredible. There were multiple bits where everyone in the theatre just GASPED. I am a massive spoiler queen, but I really would not want to deny anyone that AHHHHH! moment where something unexpected is just perfect. There were multiple bits where I still don't really know how they did that and don't care, because it worked. It was ridiculously, absurdly like watching actual magic actually happen. The magic of theatre.
(When this finally goes to other venues, I have no idea how anywhere with less money or less fancy facilities is gonna manage it....)
And I loved a lot of the character stuff. The Snape stuff, as much as I wished we had Alan Rickman playing him, worked much better than the books did to explain him. Harry was perfectly cast and I could see Harry being this person, after all this time. Hermione was perfect, and so was the girl playing Rose, who had to look and act like Hermione too and DID. Perfection. And the two main new characters, Albus and Scorpius, are delightful and exactly what we didn't get from the books, and I ship them so hard.
...and the great thing is, I can just picture them telling him and Harry that they're together, and Draco just going to Harry, "Well, I suppose this was inevitable."
Actually, I think the only thing I was a little disappointed by was the girl playing Delphi, who I just wasn't intimated by at all when we really ought to be. But at least some of that might be because our seats were really high up at the back, so I was literally looking down at her instead of craning up. I would love to go again and see it from closer in: mostly I didn't feel like we missed out, and we definitely got a great view of some spectacular stagecraft, but I bet it works even better closer in.
Anyone else want to AHHHHHH with me?!
Also also, if any of you want invites to Imzy, please yell. I have codes!
This entry was originally posted at http://soupytwist.dreamwidth.org/160095.html. Please comment there using OpenID.