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Alex Price as Draco Malfoy, Paul Thornley as Ron Weasley, Noma Dumezweni as Hermione, Jamie Parker as Harry Potter and Poppy Miller as Ginny - Photo by Manual Harlan

REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre (2016) reopening 18th July 2021

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.

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Sheila Atim as The Woman (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Les Blancs, Olivier National Theatre (2016)

This production is spellbinding and its momentum stays with me occupying my thoughts, whirring like the revolving stage. The text, finalised by Lorraine Hansberry's former husband and literary executor Robert Nemiroff, would bear much further study to grasp all its themes and nuances. Written from her viewpoint in the 1960s by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, the original person to be described as "young, gifted and black", her unfinished play Les Blancs, examines an unnamed African country on the brink of revolution and independence from colonial rule. Lorraine Hansberry was in her mid thirties when she tragically died of pancreatic cancer.

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