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REHEARSALS BEGIN FOR NEW WEST END CAST OF
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
PARTS ONE AND TWO
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Rehearsals began this week for the new West End cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child who will
start their performances at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End on 24 May 2017 following the final
performance from the current cast on 21 May 2017. Jamie Glover will play Harry Potter with Emma
Lowndes as his wife Ginny Potter and Theo Ancient as their son Albus Potter. Thomas Aldridge will
play Ron Weasley with Rakie Ayola as Hermione Granger and Helen Aluko as their daughter Rose
Granger-Weasley. Playing Draco Malfoy will be James Howard with Samuel Blenkin as his son
Scorpius Malfoy.
They are joined by new cast members David Annen, Ruthxjiah Bellenea, Danny Dalton, Leah Haile,
Rupert Henderson, Elizabeth Hill, April Hughes, James McGregor, Sarah Miele, Jordan Paris,
James Phoon, Henry Rundle, Ged Simmons, Mark Theodore, Gideon Turner and Ed White.
Original cast members Nicola Alexis, Rosemary Annabella, Phoebe Austen, Annabel Baldwin,
Jabez Cheeseman, Morag Cross, Esme Grace, Lowri James, Martin Johnston, Alfred Jones,
Barry McCarthy, Sandy McDade, Tom Mackley, Harrison Noble, Ben Roberts, Nuno Silva, Hope
Sizer and Joshua Wyatt complete the 42-strong company playing a variety of characters, including
seven children who will alternate two roles.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official
Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The critically acclaimed production received its world
premiere in June 2016 at the Palace Theatre and is now the recipient of thirteen theatre awards including
the Evening Standard Best Play Award. Earlier this month it was announced that Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child was nominated for a record-breaking eleven Olivier awards, making it the most nominated
new play in Olivier history.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is currently booking to 29 April 2018. The next advance ticket
release will take place on 25 April 2017. Tickets are priced from £15 per part and for every performance
there are over 300 tickets at £20 or less per part. Further ticket releases will be announced throughout the
year, details of which will published via the official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child website, social
media channels and the official newsletter.
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee
of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a
past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a
family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the
uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
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-2Jamie Glover (Harry Potter) was last on stage in What’s in a Name? for Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
His other theatre credits include The Rehearsal, An Ideal Husband and If Only all for Chichester Festival
Theatre, Donkeys’ Years at the Rose Theatre Kingston, Noises Off at the Old Vic and Novello Theatre in the
West End, The Chalk Garden for the Donmar Warehouse, The Shawl and The Man Who Had All the
Luck both for Sheffield Crucible, The Novice for the Almeida Theatre and The Invention of Love for the
Theatre Royal Haymarket. For the Royal Shakespeare Company his credits include All’s Well That Ends
Well, The Roman Actor and Edward III. On film his credits include These Foolish Things, Sacred
Life and Age of Treason. He is best known on television for playing Andrew Treneman in Waterloo
Road and James Lacey in Agatha Raisin, and has also been seen in Endeavour and Doctor Who: An
Adventure in Space and Time.
Emma Lowndes’ (Ginny Potter) many television credits include Bella Gregson in Cranford, Mary Rivers in
Jane Eyre and Margie Drewe in Downton Abbey. She can soon be seen as Carla Davis in Channel 4’s The
Trial. Her theatre credits include The Herbal Bed at the Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton, Children
of the Sun and Thérèse Raquin for the National Theatre, The Accrington Pals, Port, The Rise and Fall of
Little Voice and The Seagull for the Royal Exchange Theatre and Whose Life is it Anyway? at the Comedy
Theatre. On film her credits include Mother’s Milk and All or Nothing.
Theo Ancient (Albus Potter) trained at RADA and will make his professional stage debut in Harry Potter
and the Cursed Child.
Thomas Aldridge (Ron Weasley) is currently appearing in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre. His
previous theatre credits include The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for Birmingham Rep, Made in
Dagenham at the Adelphi Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew for the
Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park, The Secret Garden and Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure for West
Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep, His Dark Materials on UK tour, Only the Brave for Soho Theatre,
and High Society at the Shaftesbury Theatre. His television credits include Undercover, Titanic, Call the
Midwife, Silent Witness, Hope and Glory and The Support Group. His film credits include Flea and Blasted.
Rakie Ayola (Hermione Granger) was last on stage in The Rest of Your Life at the Bush Theatre. Her
previous theatre credits include King Lear at the Royal Exchange Theatre where she played Goneril,
Crave/4.48 Psychosis for Sheffield Crucible, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the
Apollo Theatre, Dido Queen of Carthage for the Globe Theatre, The Winter’s Tale for the Royal
Shakespeare Company and Welcome to Thebes for the National Theatre. Her television credits include No
Offence, Vera, Under Milk Wood, Black Mirror, Doctor Who, Silent Witness and Holby City. Her film credits
include Been So Long, Dredd, Now is Good and Sahara.
Helen Aluko (Rose Granger-Weasley) is an original member of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
company. Her previous theatre credits include Doctor Faustus for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Once
Language, Many Voices for TNT, The Price for Walking Forward, The Wind in the Willows for Sixteen Feet
Productions and Beauty and the Beast at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Her television credits include The
Driver.
James Howard (Draco Malfoy) is an original member of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child company.
His previous theatre credits include Brave New World for Northampton Theatre Royal, Romeo and Juliet,
As You Like It, Mojo, King Lear and Morte D’Arthur for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Twelfth
Night and Ivanov for Donmar Warehouse and The Duchess of Malfi for the National Theatre. His television
credits include Black Mirror, Dark Matters, Skins, Spooks, Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Dream Team. On
film his credits include Survivor, The Theory of Everything, The Oxford Murders and Penelope.
Samuel Blenkin (Scorpius Malfoy) trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and also makes his
professional stage debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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-3Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and
the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne, directed by John Tiffany with movement by Steven
Hoggett, set by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music & arrangements by Imogen
Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, illusions & magic by Jamie Harrison, music
supervision & arrangements by Martin Lowe and casting by Julia Horan CDG.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is one play presented in two parts. Both parts are intended to be
seen in order on the same day (matinee and evening) or on two consecutive evenings. On Thursdays
there is an evening performance of Part One and on Fridays an evening performance of Part Two. On
those days tickets to each part can be bought together or separately. Tickets for Wednesday matinee and
Wednesday evening performances can also be bought together or separately.
The regular performance schedule is as follows - Monday – no performance, Tuesday – no performance,
Wednesday - 2pm Part One & 7.30pm Part Two, Thursday – 7.30pm Part One, Friday – 7.30pm Part Two,
Saturday – 2pm Part One & 7.30pm Part Two, Sunday – 1pm Part One & 6.30pm Part Two.
Every Friday, The Friday Forty takes place at 1pm when 40 tickets are released for every performance
the following week for some of the very best seats in the theatre. Subsequent ticket releases take place
each Friday for performances the following week. Priced at £40 (£20 per part) tickets will secure a seat for
both Part One and Part Two on consecutive performances. Customers will be selected at random for the
opportunity to buy tickets online and will be able to purchase a maximum of two tickets for both Part One
and Part Two in one transaction. To ensure that as many people as possible have the chance to access
these tickets, they will only be available to buy online www.harrypottertheplay.com/ticket-information
Returned and other late-release tickets may also become available at short notice. These are not
guaranteed, but any tickets that do become available will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis, online
or in person at the Palace Theatre box office at full price.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender
and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions.
Box Office – 0343 208 0500
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30 March 2017