Rowling and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions Limited."
Per the bold print on the copyright page: " Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two may not be performed in whole or in part and no use may be made of it whatsoever except under express license from the rights holders of the work, J.K. Or wait-on second thought, don't do this. If you can't wait, then grab a copy of the Cursed Child script and put on a production in your backyard. We imagine it's only a matter of time until we read about a wand duel to the death for scalped tickets. Until then, fans hope to be one of the lucky forty to get tickets to the play in a weekly lottery. ( Source) The Telegraph called it a "magical show" and the Guardian said it was "spellbinding." American newspapers better go ahead and reserve their best magic-related puns for when the play inevitably comes to Broadway. ( Source)Īnd, although some fans didn't realize that the eighth book is, in fact, a script (whoops-always read that fine print) the play itself was well reviewed. Knowing that all of Harry's approximately 1.4 billion fans don't have the opportunity to travel to London for the stage production, Rowling published the Special Rehearsal Edition Script, spawning midnight release parties the likes of which we hadn't seen since 2007. The different faces emphasize that this isn't your father's Harry Potter-and yes, they're one more reminder that Harry Potter is old enough to be a dad. Initially directed by John Tiffany, who's directed Once and The Glass Menagerie, the play features a new cast of actors playing beloved characters.
Yeah, there's magic and mayhem.īut here wizarding takes a backseat to…parenthood. This is way different from any of the other Potter tales. Rowling, playwright Jack Thorne wrote a sprawling, epic, two-part, four-act play about Harry's relationship to his middle child, Albus Severus Potter. Beginning eighteen years after the conclusion of the final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Cursed Child shows us how Harry is adapting to his greatest challenge, a struggle more difficult than vanquishing the most evil wizard in the world: parenthood.īased on a story by J.K. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the canonical eighth story in the Harry Potter universe. We've seen musicals based on movies and musicals that got turned into movies.īut we've never seen anything like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child…and not just because we'll be waiting half a decade to get tickets to the show. We've seen depressing plays about death, sales, and death of salesmen. We've seen Shakespearean theater with sword fights and gender-bending. There are more types of plays than there are types of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. “As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Introduction The Play's The Thing “While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted,” reads an official plot description. The two-part Cursed Child – set 19 years after the ending of Deathly Hallows, the series’ final book – follows the titular wizard, now a father of three working for the Ministry of Magic. The stage production, currently in previews, opens July 30th and the script goes on sale the next day, July 31st.
The “Special Rehearsal Edition” of the Cursed Child book features the rehearsal script for the London play, written by Jack Thorne. Specific numbers of pre-sold copies were not announced.
Cursed Child has topped best-sellers lists for both Barnes & Noble and Amazon. The record was previously held by the seventh (and final) Harry Potter installment, which came out in 2007. The script of the upcoming West End play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has broken Barnes & Noble’s record for the most pre-ordered book, Entertainment Weekly reports.