The chamber of secrets cast11/8/2022 ![]() ![]() So I reveal my bias: I’m a fan an early convert. We’re talking hardbacks queued for, Ultimate Blu-ray Collectors’ editions saved for, and a six-foot cardboard Snape I prayed for (thanks 3rd year students) – every home should have one. Primed to love whatever happens, but dreading the possibility that I might…not. Things I CANNOT WRITE OF HERE because we are enjoined to ‘keep the secrets’ and I hold to my word as if I had made an Unbreakable Vow. It’s completely, utterly, bewitchingly magical. Magic that – in Peter Brook parlance – is rough, immediate, holy…. The experience begins before you walk through the doors: the banners in the streets, the acolytes of all denominations – Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Slytherin, even a few too-cool-for-school Ravenclaws – wandering about, the sculptural image of a child in a nest suspended above the awning of the refurbished Princess Theatre on Spring Street, the inside of the building itself – infused with ‘magical’ details – the panelling! the lamps!. The feeling of excitement, of expectation in the theatre is palpable. More like the feeling before a Grand Final than a play. ![]() More like the feeling I imagine theatre must once have conjured, than the ennui of entitlement it seems to elicit so often now.Īnd it’s completely, utterly, bewitchingly magical. Magic that – in Peter Brook parlance – is rough, immediate, holy…. ![]()
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