Harry Potter quotes Flashcards
Historical Context
Scorpius: “Voldemort Day?”
EoTC: emphasis
[this is Hell]
Act 2, Scene 20
Acting
Shocked fluttering tone, breathy quality .. disbelief, horrified… audience focus on new world order
dimly lit stage, almost black save for eerie low sterile white lights
sinister smoky haze
Historical context
Dolores Umbridge: “For Voldemort and Valour”
- she puts her hand to her heart, and touches her wrists together - Act 3, Scene 1
Scorpius: “For - um- yes” (trying to copy)
EoTC: Emphaisis
Historical parallels to Nazi Germany
Acting
Costume: new uniform… unfamiliar intensity, fully balck, form fitting, snake beading up spine, tie, waist coat, beading up chest - military
Nyx tense and awkward, fumbling gestures
Actors move forward in intimidating sinister triangle as Voldemort banner falls: like Nazi eagle with snake/skull
Cultural Context, Britian, magical realism
mechanical theatre technologies
Act 1, Scene 16
[ they enter a telephone box ]
actors disappear from stage thru trapdoor while cloak is sucked into the telephone box
Creates an eerie mysterious world
Seamless transition
- set designer: red - bright symbol
Celebrity Status
- above them, on a stage, Hermione and Harry -
Part 1, Act 1, Scene 12
Dolores Umbridge
Natasha Herbert
Social context: societal expectations, status, subculture in Hogwarts - physical theatre
Act 1 Scene 4 - wand dance
[and with that time moves ever onwards]
EoTC: Rhythm, motion
Directorial choice to add a coreo dance wand dance, despite not being mentioned
Synchronised movements led by their wands
lighting up signals importance of magic as they learn, realise powers through physical depiction, energetic dance
Albus is last: signal position as an outcast
Physical theatre
Cloaks as transitional
dynamic tempo
Magical Realism + physical theatre
Act 2 Scene 12 - moving staircases
EoTC: Motion, Rhythm, cohesion
Scorpius [abject loneliness] [slopes off] staircases
[Lost and hopeful] when sees Albus
Staircases move [almost a dance] [staircase sweeps around]
[moment is broken - possibly the friendship, and now the staircases part]
Nyx sombre facial expression, slouched posture, slow, lacklustre walking + yearning hand gesture reaching out
Realise emotional turmoil thru stairs. fluid movement on trucks, harmoniously move with spiralling, tinkling, melancholic piano.
Sweeping circular arcs, smooth gliding, when they meet [hopeful] pause of stillness, suspend intensity
Stairs separate in slow, sombre fashion
Magical Realism + Physical theatre
Act 2 Scene 13 - Harry and Draco fight
Theatre of cruelty
Act 3 Scene 21 - glow in the dark scrawl on theatre
[words a revealed on all the walls of the auditorium]
EoTC: Emphasis
Act 3 Scene 21
Theatre technology, magical realism
Act 2 Scene 20 - Great Lake
[swimming through the lake] [shooting up through the water]
EoTC: Cohesion,
An iris, Blue scrim, lowers down onto stage, covering vertical space in transparent blue, eerie, diffusing
Surrounded by archaic wooden circular iris with mystical ambig. circular carvings
- creates a space separate from other magical spaces, actors swim with harnesses
- scrim obscures harnesses
use of Cloaks for costume
Act 1 Scene 4
[ and suddenly] years passing by
[fragments, shards that show the constant progression of time]
EoTC: Cohesion, motion
Katrina Lindsey: “useful tool in magically appearing and disappearing objects and people”
capes whipped up in circular arcs, rush of time and movement… Albus overwhelmed and displaced
- est. a convention of transition
Theatre Technology and Costume
Act 1 Scene 16 - polyjuice potion transformation
Comedic relief: exaggerated movements, horrified screams, ill-fitting limbs of adults with teenage heads
[she burps again and turns in Hermione]
Scorpius, (Nyx Calder) Delphi (Jessica Vickers) and Albus (Ben Walter)
wear oversized cloaks, stand over trapdoors, allowing
Ron (Micheal Woods) Hermione (Paula Arundell) and Harry (Gareth Reeves)
to step behind them beneath the cloaks, transforming from within
