Reviewed by Christine Pyman, Thursday 8th March 2018.
UnPlotted Potter is a magical feast of improvisation. If you identify as a Potterhead and know if you are a Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, you will love this staging of mischievous mayhem.
Five actors with wands, a sorting hat, a few chairs and the Goblet of Fire (original, we are assured), equals a different show each night. The Goblet is offered to the audience for name selection, in an appropriate canon fashion, and the storytelling is improvised around that minor Potterverse character. There are two hundred names in the goblet, and some are so obscure that the cast members weren't even sure of whom they were.
The night I saw this production, the character chosen was Crispin Cronk, who some may remember as being an Egyptologist who had a penchant for collecting Sphinxes, which idiosyncrasy caused him to end up in Azkaban.
Wonderful, in every sense, this show held us spellbound, even whilst shaking with laughter. Quick-change characters and accents abound, with the cast brilliantly bouncing off each other's madness and wit. The Sphinxes were especially domestic in their fearsome characterisation. Spells abound, references fly, and ghosts, aurors, wizards and muggles take the stage, and we, the audience, want more. Mischief managed.
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