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Post by nash16 on Sept 25, 2024 8:34:27 GMT
If anyone is still supporting JK Rowling related things…
Opens Riverside Studios 24th Jan for a month.
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 25, 2024 8:39:51 GMT
If anyone is still supporting JK Rowling related things… Opens Riverside Studios 24th Jan for a month. Link here - www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98y1ge08ywo...if like me, you're utterly bereft of context. |
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Post by wiggymess on Sept 25, 2024 8:45:09 GMT
"The show is not connected to the official Harry Potter series or endorsed by author JK Rowling."
I wouldn't consider this supporting JK Rowling. It's about an actor missing out on the part of Harry Potter as a child and how it affected him later in life - based on a novel not by JK Rowling...
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Post by n1david on Sept 25, 2024 8:48:24 GMT
Interesting choice for Michael Longhurst's post-Donmar project.
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Post by craigbowker on Sept 25, 2024 8:58:03 GMT
If anyone is still supporting JK Rowling related things… Opens Riverside Studios 24th Jan for a month. Granted I've not read the novel, but the description makes it sound like it's not really about that, but rather the fact that HP was/is a cultural institution. As in, it could be any franchise that mattered to people and the story would still work. Don't really want to add the novel to an already too-long reading list though so feel free to correct me if HP's actual content is integral to the plot. |
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Post by cavocado on Sept 25, 2024 10:34:58 GMT
If anyone is still supporting JK Rowling related things… Anyone? Like the people who buy her best-selling Strike novels, ensure Cursed Child still doesn't need to discount or sell Rush tickets, and make it worth investing millions in a new Potter tv adaptation? |
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Post by profquatermass on Sept 25, 2024 11:20:07 GMT
If anyone is still supporting JK Rowling related things… Anyone? Like the people who buy her best-selling Strike novels, ensure Cursed Child still doesn't need to discount or sell Rush tickets, and make it worth investing millions in a new Potter tv adaptation? Or tried to book for the studio tour in the next six weeks. The controversy about her option on trans issues has made as much difference to her sales as Roald Dahl's anti-semitism has to his. That is absolutely none |
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 25, 2024 11:39:54 GMT
I imagine large numbers of people on this site will share her view that trans-women, that is men who claim to be women, should not be participating in women's or girls' sport and sharing their changing rooms and showers; that women survivors of rape are not bigots if they wish to be treated and looked after by females; that rapists should not be put in women's prisons; and that pre-pubescent children should not be given experimental medical treatment before they are an age to offer meaningful consent.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 25, 2024 12:25:04 GMT
Please can we stay on the topic of the play and not JK Rowling’s opinions/beliefs or the wider trans debate. Thank you.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 25, 2024 13:39:12 GMT
This is a book that could make for a really interesting play, imo. The concept of the play are inherently quite theatrical. It's not really about Harry Potter, it's about making choices in life and being scarred by feeling that life has dealt us an unfair hand. I find a ton of the themes in the book really relatable, in terms of personal responsibility and childhood trauma. It reminds me of the fig tree metaphor in the Bell Jar. Or a little bit of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's The Wasp though I remember that play as being much darker.
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Post by sph on Sept 25, 2024 13:50:01 GMT
It hadn't even crossed my mind that this would be in any way connected with JK Rowling, besides the reference to the role of Harry Potter being lost by this actor.
Anyway, the greatest surprise to me was that this is Asa Butterfield's stage debut! I think we always assume that British actors in particular do a lot of, or at least started their careers in, theatre.
I really liked him in Sex Education, so I think I'll be seeing this!
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