![]() Parker and Clemmett excel in these father-son scenes, and Thorne’s writing of them is sentimental without being syrupy, delivering more than one tearful moment. During an especially touching moment, Harry reminds Albus that he, Harry, grew up an orphan, and hasn’t the experience of parenthood to know how to help. The play is at its very best when it’s reveling in the idiosyncratic wit of Rowling’s creation, and finding human allegory in Harry’s struggle to be a good father to his aimless son. The fan service comes thick and fast, delighting the hardcore with expansions to the canon that at times provoked gasps from the auditorium. The time travel-heavy plot goes back to events from the main series and beyond. Heavy exposition attempts to hold the hands of unfamiliar audience members, and it seems to do a fair job, though one theatergoer near me at an earlier showing, who hadn’t read the books or seen the films, needed a steer somewhere in the middle of Part Two. ![]() It’s up to Harry-now a frustrated civil servant at the Ministry of Magic-and his friends to help the beleaguered next generation. Suffice it to say Albus and Scorpius (a witty and spirited Anthony Boyle) set out to correct an error in the past, only to cause damage to their present that threatens the reemergence of darkness after years of peace. Manuel Harlanįor its 5-hour runtime, it works in so many plot strands that it’s a fool’s errand-and far too much of a spoiler-to detail them all. By his fourth year, during which much of Cursed Child is set, Albus is a frustrated teenager determined to prove his doubters wrong, though still unable to relate to his famous father. He’s sorted into Slytherin, to his dismay befriends Draco Malfoy’s son Scorpius, to their fathers’ dismay and is roundly mocked for being a flickering shadow of The Boy Who Lived. While the play opens with the adult Harry Potter (Jamie Parker) seeing off his second son Albus (Sam Clemmett) on his journey to Hogwarts-a scene that closed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 19 years after the events of the series-the action moves at a clip through Albus’s first three school years. The tagline reads, “The eighth story, nineteen years later,” which is only half right. ![]() As with the main Harry Potter book series, though, the emphasis is on character. ![]()
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