How did "the friendship between the two lads" become "explicitly romantic"? Scorbus: A deep dive
Upon theatre reopening, we had news that Scorbus is as good as canon in the re-worked one-part version of Cursed Child. It has us feeling very mixed feelings[i]. We want to feel joy, but time has taught us to always be critical and we have an underlying feeling that we are still being queer baited. This piece dives into scorbus past and present to try to tackle why this decision was made. Part 1: Scorbus in the two-part play The original London cast and the material The original material of the play (we’re talking the script, not acting choices) is heavily focused on Albus’s character arch, with Scorpius’s and Harry’s relationships with him involved in moving the plot along. Albus is given Delphi as a love interest, and this was played off as feasible by the original cast, Sam Clemmett’s Albus all puppy dog eyes and cheesy flirting. Scorpius is given Rose as a love interest, who was always put across as the one person that Scorpius fancied, with Anthony Boyle's Scorpius flirting al...