Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script

This book is new, never read, very minor wear on edges of dust jacket from normal storage, no wear on front or back covers, spine intact, no creases. "The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, 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 play will receive its world premiere in London's West End on July 30, 2016.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.This Special Rehearsal Edition will be available to purchase until early 2017." "J.K. Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling, pen name of Joanne Rowling, (born July 31, 1965, Yate, near Bristol, England), British author, creator of the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter series, about a young sorcerer in training. Jack Thorne writes for theatre, film, television and radio. His theatre credits include ""Hope"" and ""Let The Right One In,"" both directed by John Tiffany, ""The Solid Life of Sugarwater"" for the Graeae Theatre Company, ""Bunny"" for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ""Stacy"" for the Trafalgar Studios, "" 2nd May 1997"" and ""When You Cure Me"" for the Bush. His adaptations include ""The Physicists"" for the Donmar Warehouse and ""Stuart: A Life Backwards"" for Hightide. On film his credits include ""War Book,"" ""A Long Way Down"" and ""The Scouting Book for Boys."" For television his credits include ""The Last Panthers,"" ""Don t Take My Baby,"" "" This Is England,"" ""The Fades,"" ""Glue"" and ""Cast-Offs"" and the upcoming ""National Treasure."" In 2012 he won BAFTAs for best series (""The Fades"") and best serial (""This Is England 88""). John Tiffany directed ""Once"" for which he was the recipient of multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway. As Associate Director of the Royal Court, his work includes ""The Twits,"" ""Hope"" and ""The Pass."" He was the director of ""Let The Right One In"" for the National Theatre of Scotland, which transferred to the Royal Court, West End and St. Ann s Warehouse. His other work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes ""Macbeth"" (also Broadway), ""Enquirer,"" ""The Missing,"" ""Peter Pan,"" ""The House of Bernarda Alba,"" ""Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me,"" ""Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us,"" The ""Bacchae,"" ""Black Watch,"" for which he won the Olivier and Critics Circle Best Director Awards, ""Elizabeth Gordon Quinn"" and ""Home: Glasgow."" Other recent credits include ""The Glass Menagerie"" at A.R.T. and on Broadway and ""The Ambassador"" at BAM. Tiffany was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012, and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University in the 2010-2011 academic year. After graduating from the University of Exeter in 1986, Rowling began working for Amnesty International in London, where she started to write the Harry Potter adventures. In the early 1990s she traveled to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, but, after a brief marriage and the birth of her daughter, she returned to the United Kingdom, settling in Edinburgh. Living on public assistance between stints as a French teacher, she continued to write."