Family Themes In The Lion, The Witch And The Kingdom

I also created a mind map (pictured above) of the themes of the play to allow myself to fully visualize where I was going to be taking my scenes and the ideas that needed to be communicated.
The families in the play present an important part of the plot and themes. Two families are central to this, the Malfoys and the Potters. The head of the Malfoy family, Draco, and the head of the potter family, Harry, were rivals in their youth and now their sons are forming a lasting friendship. This aspect will affect my chosen scenes. Therefore, I decided to create family trees to figure out the complicated familial relationships so I could reference them.
I also played with using colour to symbolize the different families. In the series, and mentioned in the play the families are almost colour coordinated by their hair. The Malfoy’s have platinum blonde hair while the Potters have black hair. Allies to the Potter family are the Weasley

This play however, features mainly children. It allows these children to exist as more than just pawns to be used by the adults in the play through the development of them with a wide range of personalities and wants that cause them to make conflicting decisions. The Cursed Child has the same idea going so far as to even make some of the adults the pawns of the children. Consistently throughout the play the children are more three-dimensional than the adults. I want to keep to this by giving the children different mannerisms from each other. I picture Albus as having too much energy to be contained in his body. He’s always shifting around, fidgeting, bouncing and more. Scorpius however would be quiet and withdrawn, his body tucked into himself but he opens up around Albus to show their relationship and bond. The siblings in The lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe also had this