Episode 16.5.5: Jeremy Mason and the Cursed Child
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Grab your opera glasses, witches, because this week Hannah is joined by actor, director, and playwright Jeremy Mason for a discussion about the pleasures of reading plays, and why Rowling might have turned to the theatre for her newest addition to the Harry Potter canon. Don’t forget to take notes, because we’ll be asking you for your questions about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the coming weeks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to which please a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Hannah McGregor. And today we're bringing you an actually genuinely mini minisode in preparation for our collective reading of Harry Potter and the |
| 0:35.8 | cursed child. I spoke with Calgary-based actor-director and playwright Jeremy Mason about reading |
| 0:42.1 | scripts and the unique pleasures of theater. |
| 0:45.2 | Jeremy is the former artistic director of New West Theater and was recently announced |
| 0:49.6 | as one of the winners of Storybook Theater's inaugural National Theater for Young Audiences Playwriting Competition, so he knows his YA theater. |
| 0:59.0 | A brief note before I take you into the interview. I had some technical issues. This was my first time recording the Skype conversation with my new audio recorder and I didn't have the chords quite as well figured out as I was hoping that I would. |
| 1:18.0 | So apologies if things get a little buzzy from time to time. |
| 1:22.0 | Just pretend that humming sound is like something magical, like a |
| 1:30.6 | spell, like it's a humming spell. All right, let's go. |
| 1:35.0 | Okay, so thanks so much for agreeing to talk with us about theater, which I have a really hard time not saying with a funny accent every time. |
| 1:47.0 | So particularly, we just have a couple of questions we want to ask for our listeners who may have already read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child or who may be in the process of getting gearing up for reading it |
| 2:02.0 | But have possibly never read a play before. |
| 2:07.0 | So I was wondering, first off, for any of our listeners who have never read a play for fun before if you have any tips for sitting |
| 2:16.8 | down and reading a play script. |
| 2:19.1 | What would you say to listeners of ours who are reluctant to pick up |
| 2:22.8 | Cursed Child specifically because it's a play. |
| 2:25.8 | I think that the idea of reading a play |
| 2:30.0 | can sometimes be scary, it is so different. |
| 2:35.0 | I don't know many people other than theater people that are reading plays. |
| 2:40.0 | And so as a theater person, it's exciting the idea that it's going to open up reading |
| 2:45.2 | scripts to a whole different audience of people. And so for me personally that |
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