‘There’s so much magic!’: how we made Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

‘The ripple of energy and anticipation from the audience was almost visual. It was like opening a new Star Wars film – I didn’t hear a phone go off once’ My initial response when I was asked if I was interested in the role was confusion – I felt a bit long in the tooth to play a teenager. I had read the first Harry Potter book and seen a few of the movies, but was just past the right age when it was all kicking off. I didn’t know that there was the coda in the final book that places the action…