HP as a play?

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 4374

I've just been watching playwright and poet, Adrian Mitchell being
interviewed on TV.  I wasn't really watching, but then he started talking
about "the Potter books" and how the writing "tumbles on like a river".
Then he admitted that he'd like to adapt the Harry Potter books for the
stage and there was some discussion along the lines of "how on earth would
you do Quidditch on the stage?"

Would Harry Potter work on the stage?  I have a sudden vision of
Crookshanks, either as Dick Whittington's panto cat or as one the
cats-in-a-leotard from the musical "Cats!"  That aside, I think it would be
fun. 

The most unlikely things end up on stage.  I remember being a bit startled
that Iain Banks' "The Wasp Factory" had been made into a play, but by all
accounts it was really good.  The idea of a musical about the Titanic
disaster also seemed a bit weird, but it was a success.  Why not Harry Potter?  

Neil        

            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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   "Then, dented, scratched and steaming, 
   the car rumbled off into the darkness, 
   its rear lights blazing angrily"

 [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]

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