Social play reading: 'Wyrd Sisters' by Terry Pratchett

Name: Social play reading: 'Wyrd Sisters' by Terry Pratchett
Start: 2025-03-11T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Museum of Bath at Work

Schedule

Tue, 11 Mar, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Museum of Bath at Work | Bath, EN

Social play reading:
'Wyrd Sisters' by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs
Tuesday 11th March, 6pm for a 6.30pm start
at the Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath, BA1 2RH
All are welcome to our unrehearsed play readings where we get together to read and discuss a play, as well as have a chat and some snacks. Feel free to bring some nibbles and a drink to share - there will be time for socialising and discussing the script as well as reading.
(If you think you might be late, come any way! You will still have the opportunity to read.)
Our first play reading of 2025 will be Stephen Briggs's stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett's wildly popular fantasy comedy, 'Wyrd Sisters'.
A bit about the play...
'Wyrd Sisters' is part of Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series - a fantasy comedy series set on a flat world, supported by four elephants on a giant space turtle...
First published in 1988, the critically acclaimed novel was adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs in 1991, to equally enthusiastic reviews, leading it to be performed many times over the next 35 years or so, and Briggs adapting many more of Pratchett's Discworld novels for the stage.
From the blurb...
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 (naive, fond of occult jewellery and bunnies).
5 female characters and 6 male characters (although at our social play readings everyone can have a go regardless of gender!)
We'll read the whole script over the course of the evening (script in hand) and everyone who attends should have the opportunity to read a section if they wish - or you are welcome to come and just listen.
Let us know you're attending by emailing [email protected]
Please note that the room we are using at the Museum of Bath at Work is accessed via three flights of stairs.