Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays
|
Not currently available
The Fifth Elephant - Stage Adaptation (Paperback)
Loot Price: R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
|
|
The Fifth Elephant - Stage Adaptation (Paperback)
Series: Modern Plays
(sign in to rate)
Loot Price R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
Those addicted to Terry Pratchett's Discworld series are well aware
that the success of the books is due to a complex and quirky
combination of elements: the wondrously fractured logic of
Pratchett's Discworld itself; the bizarre cast of characters that
the author has created (and adds to book after book); the
idiosyncratic (but logical) plotting; and - most of all -
Pratchett's authorial voice, commenting, explaining, wisecracking.
It might seem that to remove Pratchett's voice by converting a book
to a stage production would sink the ship. But not so. Pratchett
has been lucky in enjoying some very adroit dramatizations of his
books, where more than enough of the original flavour has been
transmuted into a new medium. Here Stephen Briggs's clever
telescoping has made a baggy novel into a swift-moving and
diverting piece. Commander Vimes is dispatched to a savage,
grip-of-winter Uberwald (distantly related to Transylvania) to set
up trade links with the King of the Dwarfs, but he finds himself
caught up in an inter-species war. Helping him out is a motley
crew: a talking dog, a vampyre who's given up drinking blood and a
self-made man (who still displays his stitches). The doughty
commander finds himself an escaped prisoner, on the run from a pack
of fascist werewolves. As an adaptation, this is top drawer -
almost all the best of Pratchett's novel is here. Having said that,
it would take a very special production to do it justice. Perhaps
it's best just to read the play and enter the theatre of the mind?
(Kirkus UK)
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels
Commander Vimes is sent to wild, wintry and Transylvania-like
Uberwald to establish trade links with the King of the Dwarfs but
he ends up trying to stop and inter-species war. On his side
though, is a talking dog, a reformed vampyre and a self-made man.
You can tell he's self-made because the stitches still show. Vimes
may have arrived as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador but he soon finds
it's not all golden chocolate balls. Now he's an escaped prisoner -
out in the icy woods, wearing only the gloomy trousers of Uncle
Vanya and being chased by a pack of fascist werewolves who don't
play by the rules."One of the funniest authors alive" The
Independent
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.