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Houston Press

ALL SEVEN HARRY POTTER BOOKS

IN SEVENTY HILARIOUS MINUTES!

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THE BOY WHO LIVED, CASTING A HUMOROUS SPELL
By Daniel M. Gold
With all the Harry Potter books and movies
done, and no new material to pore over,
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Or you could make your way to the
theater, where the gloriously goofy “Potted
Potter” is being staged. Billed as “the
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parody makes the perfect claim for the
Twitter age: all seven books — roughly
4,000 pages — in 70 minutes.
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onetime presenters on CBBC, the British
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faking it, confusing the series with “The
Lord of the Rings” and “The Chronicles
of Narnia.”
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so cheap it might have been furnished by
Craigslist, Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Turner
do indeed tell an abbreviated, ridiculous
version of the Boy Who Lived. Mr. Turner
plays Harry, though when he wears those
signature glasses, he looks more like that
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plays everyone else, including, among
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Seen by over a million fans!
ALL SEVEN
HARRY POTTER BOOKS
IN SEVENTY
HILARIOUS MINUTES!
featuring a live game
of quidditch!
others, Ron and Hermione; Draco Malfoy;
Snape; the Weasleys; Sirius Black; Mad-
Eye Moody; Dumbledore; and, of course,
He Who Must Not Be Named.
Dobby, the house elf, makes an
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snake; Death Eaters and — crucial to
Mr. Clarkson, at least — the dragon from
Book 4. A highlight is the game Quidditch
played with audience participation. And a
very golden Snitch.
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that the two created in 2005 to entertain
Potter fans lined up for the release of the
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in the West End in London and in Toronto,
they no doubt took some cues from the
popular “Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr
(Abridged)” by the Reduced Shakespeare
Company.
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vaudeville, ragged and thrown together
in a spirit similar to fan-created homages
like Potter Puppet Pals and “A Very Potter
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plot twists and nuances of Hogwarts to
enjoy the in-jokes, though clearly most of
the delighted crowd does.
Besides, if you miss something, another
laugh will be along shortly. Clearly
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Turner attended
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the duo casts the perfect spell over the
audience: Reductio ad absurdum.
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