‘We need that number of non-white actors,’ says director John Tiffany. ‘But that’s not to say I can’t do some mixing up’
The director John Tiffany sits in a sunny alcove of the Palace Theatre in London. In a few hours an orderly queue will form on the street below and snake its way around all four sides of the building in preparation for another showing of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
A significant portion of those waiting in line will be colour-coded according to their Hogwarts house. Some will be children but most will be young adults. The generation who grew up with Harry are legion and they have waited a decade to find out what happened next. Two years after the Cursed Child premiered in the West End it still regularly sells out four shows a week. In April it began showing on Broadway.
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