Wyrd Sisters - Playtext

The play of the book.The play script adaptation of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second book in the Witches series, part of the Discworld novels.'Pratchett's Discworld books have made millions of people happy' Guardian'Comedy fantasy at its very best' 5-star reader review'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.'Three witches gathered on a lonely heath.A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the royal crown, both missing. Witches don't have these kinds of leadership problems themselves - in fact, they don't have leaders.Granny Weatherwax is the most highly regarded of the leaders they don't have. But even she finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe.Particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off . . .Wyrd Sisters is the second book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Praise for the Discworld series-' Pratchett's spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX' Discworld is compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard

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Biography for Stephen BriggsTerry Pratchett is fifty and lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in. He feels it may be time to get a life, since apparently they're terribly useful. Carpe Jugulum is the twenty-third novel in his phenomenally successful Discworld series.Biography for Terry PratchettTerry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.

TERRY PRATCHETT'S WYRD SISTERS THE PLAY adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare's Macbeth and then turns it up 'till the knob comes off. It's all there - a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three witches. Granny Weatherwax (intolerant, self-opinionated, powerful), Nanny Ogg (down-to-earth, vulgar) and Magrat Garlick (nave, fond of occult jewellry and bunnies). Stephen Briggs has been involved in amateur dramatics for over 25 years and he assures us that the play can be staged without needing the budget of Industrial Light and Magic. Not only that but the cast should still be able to be in the pub by 10 o'clock! Oh, and a word of advice omitted from the play text: Learn The Words Havelock, Lord Vetinari

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