The catharsis of Adelle Leonce's performance as Angel will haunt me for a long time as she brings to life the searing hurt of Nat Martello-White's terrific writing.
Nineteen years after Book Seven ended, we are at the station for the Potters (Jamie Parker as Harry and Poppy Miller as his wife Ginny) to see their second son Albus Severus Potter (Sam Clemmett) off to Hogwarts School for the first time.
Timothy Sheader's production at the Open Air in Regent's Park is exciting, brilliantly sung and choreographed and, best of all, unbounded by walls. On a fine summer's evening, the cast join us progressing through the audience and immediately I felt we were witnessing a joyous sect of enthusiastic and inspired youth. They are magnetic so that you want to be part of them. They make their way down to the stage dominated by a 35 foot cross on the playing area.