Harry Potter and the Cursed Child director John Tiffany (left in photograph) and playwright Jack Thorne (right in photograph) opened up briefly about their excitement in creating the eighth part of the
Harry Potter series, and how they had to work out the difference in writing
Harry Potter for stage rather than page and screen.
The first half, released from Pottermore, can be read below.
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John Tiffany (director): ‘In all my years working in the theatre, I have never experienced anything like this,’ he says.
‘What we’re doing here is taking the biggest literary franchise the world has ever seen into theatre and it’s... Well, people are so stoked up about it. I’m conscious of bringing the fans what they love, doing this story justice and exploring the psychology of a grown up Harry Potter with the same epic sweep as the books and the films, but in a different way.’
‘Jack went away and came back with the first forty pages. The big thing had happened. He’d written dialogue for Jo’s characters and they sounded like themselves. He’d brought them back. I can’t tell you what it was like to see that.’
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Jack Thorne (playwright): ‘Sometimes I can’t believe it; the idea that we have written the eighth story of Harry Potter. The whole time, I’ve felt this great responsibility to the previous seven stories. Theatre is very different to film; we’ve had to find our own way into the stories. We are starting to see it all come together in workshops now and it’s just wonderful,’ he says.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's two parts will open in London's Palace Theatre beginning June 7, 2016 - tickets will be available for order next week.