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A review by daumari
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by John Tiffany
2.0
It was ok.
I get the hype, that it's an 8th Harry Potter story, and I imagine this is different on stage, but I feel the same way about this as I do with Andrew Lloyd Weber's Love Never Dies...
Theater and novels are different mediums, but I also have difficulty imagining people sitting through 4+ hours and/or two plays to see this. I'd feel very frustrated leaving Part One knowing I'd see Part Two the next day instead of immediately after, but that would be difficult for the actors and stage staff, I imagine... it might fix the pacing, though.
I get the hype, that it's an 8th Harry Potter story, and I imagine this is different on stage, but I feel the same way about this as I do with Andrew Lloyd Weber's Love Never Dies...
Spoiler
...in that wow, this reads like mediocre fanfic, which is disappointing considering this comes (partially) from the author and is therefore canon... time travel to drastically change events from midseries that creates multiple timelines, a villain that's very much like a fan OC (original character), and death of a regular series favorite offscreen in at least one timeline.Theater and novels are different mediums, but I also have difficulty imagining people sitting through 4+ hours and/or two plays to see this. I'd feel very frustrated leaving Part One knowing I'd see Part Two the next day instead of immediately after, but that would be difficult for the actors and stage staff, I imagine... it might fix the pacing, though.