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Sara Keating: A piquant Potter parody with plenty to please diehard fans

Potted Potter has more than enough about it to please diehard fans of JK Rowling’s long-running literary fantasy franchise

Potted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience at the Everyman Palace Theatre in Cork

When JK Rowling published her debut fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997, she changed the landscape of children’s literature for ever. Over the next decade, Rowling invited young readers into the magical realm of Hogwarts, a place where they could explore ideas of difference and learn to understand their own potential.

Anyone who read the series as it was published is now grown-up, so Potted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience has ...