Potted Potter - The Unofficial Harry Experience

Synopsis

They’ll be taking on the ultimate challenge of potting all seven Potter books into seventy minutes, with the help of endless costumes, brilliant songs, ridiculous props, and a generous helping of Hogwarts magic. This fantastically funny show features all your favourite characters, a special appearance from a very frightening fire-breathing dragon, and even a game of Quidditch involving the audience!

Our Review:

19 December 2007

I feel I should apologise for scarcely cracking a smile during this frantic show, but then I’m not a member of what marketing people would call the target demographic. In other words, I’m somewhat more than eight years old.

To be fair, I have to report small persons convulsing in various degrees of hysteria at the antics of Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, the two hard-working, hard-clowning players who undertake to act out the whole of J K Rowling’s Hogwarts oeuvre. The effect is rather like being an adult at a very well organised middle-class children’s party. We have gratefully abandoned the over-excited littl’uns to professional entertainers and in other circumstances would chat (probably about secondary school places) over a glass of wine.

Some people have compared this 70-minute show - which began life on the Edinburgh Fringe over a year ago and has kept going pretty well since then - to the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s...

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Andrew M-N - 27 December 2007:

Im 15 and saw this production at the Edinburgh festival last year. i have to diagree with your reviewer as i found it hlarious. admitedly some gags were more specifically for the "target demographic" but there was plenty on offer to keep me and several of my peers entertained. furthermore i think adults would enjoy this truly excellent session of potter even if they havent read the books or seen the films and if they have then so much the better....

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