It's been a while since I've been to the theatre. Gone is the regular once-a-fortnight theatre visit, replaced instead with the sporadic visits to those things-that-you-really-should-see. With that in mind, I went to see Harry Potter and the Shameless Money-making Opportunity, or whatever it is actually called.
First off, let's just say the stage craft was spectacular, to get that out the way. It really was.
Given that I had read the script a couple of years back and could remember almost nothing about it I'm surprised that I was disappointed in the story. It was just a contrived, over-long non-story. A clunky device to allow the "best" Harry Potter characters to be revisited. A grab-bag of lazy, self-indulgent references.
And don't get me started on the fact that it was two parts, neither of which could be stand alone.
Still the stage craft was spectacular. But if I just wanted spectacle I'd have gone to the circus.
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