Victoria Flint and her boyfriend attended Spontaneous Potter on Saturday, May 13, to celebrate her 42nd birthday.
Both had purchased new cloaks and wands for the event, but were unpleasantly surprised as soon as the performance began.
Victoria said: “The first thing that the main character said when opening the show was, "I have never watched a single Harry Potter film or read a single Harry Potter book".
The audience then reportedly gasped, to which he replied, ‘and you can suck my balls!’”
Victoria said: “It’s not really what I paid £20 each for a ticket for, not what I think many people around me really thought that they paid for. We decided to leave early, it wasn’t anything to do with Harry Potter.
"It was just a group of four people that were doing some improvised comedy, and it had no bearing on Harry Potter.”
Victoria wrote to Wiltshire Creative, requesting a refund on her ticket but had not received a reply at the time of writing.
Victoria said: “[The presenter] did say, ‘Ah, I’ve been wanting to say that,’ because they did a children’s version of it, and he said, ‘I wanted to say that in the kids’ performance, but obviously I couldn’t.’”
Victoria said up until that evening, her birthday had gone well.
She said: “I’m a bit disgusted and appalled by it really.”
Both had purchased new cloaks and wands for the event
:what-the-hell: are potter heads out there being like "ohh my regular cloak and wand simply won't do for such an evening. I need a nice new cloak before heading into hogssssmeead tonight"
I guess I really don't understand style and fashion at all. I would have thought it was fine for them to use the cloaks and wands they already had.
I thought the process was something like food that's certified kosher by a rabbi. Don't such objects have to blessed by a elderly wizard or something?
Rick Wakeman must be loving this. 40 years ago nobody thought he could pull off the cape, now there are tens of thousands of people walking around England who look much worse in it than he ever did.
:data-laughing:
also if you google the name of the play, their website tells you exactly what it is
harry potter fans continue to be unable to readI have never watched a single Harry Potter film or read a single Harry Potter book [...] and you can suck my balls!
:miyazaki-laugh:
Here's why I think this is clever: if your improv troupe has decided that it must put on a Harry Potter-themed event, then doing as little research as possible (and getting as many of the details wrong as possible) might be the best way to shield yourself from claims of trademark infringement.
Holy shit you are 42. If you're not going to read another book, at least have the courtesy to shut the fuck up about it for 5 seconds ever.
Those fans simultaneously seem to want complete cultural hegemony and absolutely no critical or subversive reactions. Like, I have to hear about this media property every second day, the least we can do as a culture is make fun of it
On The Spontaneous Players’ website, Spontaneous Potter is described as “an entirely improvised wizarding comedy play, based on an audience suggestion of a fanfiction title.”
You bought a new set of cosplay gear for this but couldn't read the advertising blurb?`
local woman doesn't like show, more at 11
the UK is going through unprecedented shitty times but this makes the news
:wojak-nooo: : I’m a bit disgusted and appalled by it really
:gigachad-hd: : Suck my balls!
The fact that they left early is probably why they felt it had nothing to do with Harry Potter. Improv comedy and Harry Potter sounds like my idea of hell, but I know some people who went to this elsewhere as (shudder) Potter fans and said it was satirical but actually pretty spot on with a lot of deep cuts and jokes for fans.
I have now reached my limit of how much I can say positively about anything Harry Potter adjacent.
Harry Potter is a flawed series of children's books that are useful to teach children to enjoy reading, and are so full of plot holes as to spawn fifty thousand more interesting fanfics.
Me dropping my treats on the ground. "My treats! My precious treats!"
:gigachad: "I have never watched a single Harry Potter film or read a single Harry Potter book"
