If the originals showed one side of adolescence, “The Cursed Child” presents another - not the golden boy fighting for good, but the misfit battling with himself. He is, as the book suggests, an anxious kid, nervous about leaving home, uncomfortable with attention and scared of being sorted into Slytherin. Rowling’s sequel picks up where the books left off, with that coda at Kings Cross, 19 years on, as Harry sees his second son, Albus Severus Potter, off to Hogwarts for the first time. Even scenes changes proceed with the swish of a cloak. Huge iron arches, the ribs of the roof at Kings Cross station, slide in to become the Forbidden Forest. Suitcases spring into shape as the Hogwarts Express, and two shifting staircases make a maze of school corridors. Director John Tiffany’s staging is full of tiny impossibilities, but it’s big on imagination too.
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