Stephen Briggs

On the anniversary of Ankh-Morpork's great uprising, Vimes is locked in a deadly struggle with a psychopathic criminal, and falls off a roof and back in time - right back to the revolution he remembers from his youth. Back in his rough and tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that the right future will emerge, and stay alive so that he can get back to it. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, outmanoeuvre the vile Cable Street Unmentionables and their suspiciously psychopathic new Sergeant, and look after a bloody revolution.

Discworld's first newspaper editor just wants to get at the truth but unfortunately, like other editors before and after him, many people want him dead for a variety of reasons.

This is a stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels. Commander Vimes is sent to wild and wintry Uberwald to establish trade links with the King of Dwarfs but he ends up trying to stop an inter-species war.

The 'Monstrous Regiment' in question is made up of a vampire (reformed & off the blood), a troll, Igor (who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too particular about previous ownership), a collection of misfits & a young woman who discovers that a pair of socks shoved down her pants is a good way to open up doors. 'Monstrous Regiment' is the adaptation of the best-selling Terry Pratchett 'Discworld' novel of the same name, and was first performed at the Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon, in 2001.

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First performed in Abingdon in 1997, 'Jingo' is a faithful adaptation of Terry Pratchett's hilarious Discworld novel. Somewhere in the Circle Sea between Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali, a fisherman's boat bumps into a weathervane. Inevitably, this results in the declaration of war. The Lost Kingdom of Leshp has emerged after hundreds of years beneath the waves. And so with no ships, no army and no money, Ankh-Morpork goes to war against the Klatchian army claiming the rock as their own. To add injury to insult, a visiting Klatchian prince is wounded in an assassination attempt. This is only stopped from becoming a major diplomatic incident by Sir Samuel Vimes of the City Watch, who knows how politics works and is determined not to give it any opportunity to do so. Undaunted by the prospect of being tortured to death by vastly superior numbers of enemy troops, a small band of intrepid men and an increasingly stupid troll set out under Vimes's command. If they can survive long enough, maybe they can arrest an entire army for breach of the peace.

For more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld. A world populated by ineffectual wizards and sharp-as-tacks witches, by tired policemen and devious dictators, by reformed thieves and vampires who have sworn to drink no blood. It is a world that is vastly different from our own except when it isn't.

First performed in Abingdon in 2005, 'Going Postal' is a faithful adaptation of Terry Pratchett's hilarious Discworld novel. Moist von Lipwig was a con artist, a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. With the help of a golem who has been at the bottom of a hole in the ground for over two hundred years, a pin fanatic and Junior Postman Groat, he's got to see that the mail gets through. In taking on the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company and a midnight killer, he's also go to stay alive. Getting a date with Adora Belle Dearheart would be nice, too. In the mad world of the mail, a criminal might be able to succeed where honest men have failed and died. Perhaps there's a shot at redemption for a man who is prepared to push the envelope.

Adapted from Terry Pratchett's best-selling novel, 'Interesting Times' premiered in Abingdon in 2001. It is a Discworld story about barbarians, revolutionaries, assassinations, desperate battles and a travel memoir. Rincewind, Discworld's most inept wizard, has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire, to help some well-intentioned revolutionaries overthrow the Emperor. He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer and a group of seven very elderly barbarian heroes lead by Cohen the Barbarian. Opposing him is the evil and manipulative Lord Hong and his army of 750,000 men. Rincewind is also aided by Twoflower - Discworld's first tourist and the author of a subversive book called 'What I Did On My Holidays' about his visit to Ankh-Morpork, which has inspired the rebels in their struggle for freedom.

Here there be dragons ... and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all ...).