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 Pratchett Pieces Three will consist of three brand new plays (never seen before), and a chance to catch up on a couple from Pratchett Pieces One and Two, that you may have missed in previous Fringe seasons.   If you are a Pratchett fan you cannot afford to miss this!  If you are not a fan yet, come along and see what all the fuss is about!

ABOUT "MONSTROUS REGIMENT"

John Knox (well known Protestant Reformer of the 16th Century) is turning in his grave!   His view that women are "weak, pale, impatient, feeble, foolish, inconstant, variable, cruel and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment" is about to be exposed for exactly what it is - MONSTROUS!

It may have taken five centuries since Knox wrote his essay entitled "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women", as well as the enormous satirical wit of Sir Terry Pratchett, for Unseen Theatre Company to blow its own first blast of the trumpet, but here we are, ready to do battle with our own Monstrous Regiment, led by - you guessed it - a girl!

Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers is easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape takes more time......but nothing is going to stop her enlisting in the Borogravian Army to search for her lost brother.

The fact that there's a war on and their side's coming off worse doesn't scare her. Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training.

All that the bunch of new recruits has on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army, a vampire with a lust for coffee, a troll, an Igor,  and a readiness to fight dirty.

As they take the war to to the heart of the enemy, they will need all the resources of the  Monstrous Regiment.

SNIPPETS FROM REVIEWS

"Nobody presents a Pratchett play like Pamela Munt and her Unseen Theatre Company. Monstrous Regiment, their latest offering at the Bakehouse Theatre is a winner....Monstrous Regiment is not just one for Discworld fans, it's a diverting and enjoyable production that's more than niche entertainment......" -
Stephen Davenport, Australian Stage Online

"Terry Pratchett is British. Very British, following the likes of Douglas Adams, Spike Milligan and the Monty Python crew in the great tradition of British absurdist humour.....Pamela Munt's direction is suitably restrained....wisely allowing the writing to remain the play's central feature.......Tom Crisp, in his stage debut, stands out as the ineptly deluded Lieutenant Blouse with a performance that is reminiscent of a young Graham Chapman or of Hugh Laurie's work in 'Black Adder'...David Geddes and ...Philip Lineton are both fantastic.....Kahlia Tutty delivers a wonderfully balanced performance ......Paul Messenger also deserves commendation for his authoritative performance...."
Aaron Nash - Db Magazine

"Pratchett fans will love this, and rightly so. This production seems to find most of the available humour and develops the, always present in Pratchett, social comment.....Kahlia Tutty is very believable as Polly.....there is a strong performance from Paul Messenger.....Samm Blackmore, Catherine Moore and Kate Hall make a great group of "lads" and Tom Crisp hits the target as Lieutenant Blouse..." -
Fran Edwards - Adelaide Theatre Guide

"This is by far one of Unseen Theatre's tightest productions...kudos to the efficient backstage crew ..who are as quiet and unobtrusive as possible.....Kahlia Tutty...is a delight to watch,,,,David Geddes steals the light as the troll.....Kristofa Cassono is nicely understated....Philip Lineton successfully reprises his role of an Igor....and doubles as nasty Prince Heinrich, showing his versatility......"
Rod Lewis - Glam Adelaide

"The strength of this production is the cast. Director Pamela Munt has picked the right mix of talent to play the various roles......the jokes (are delivered) in such a genuinely funny way......it's too easy to say that this is one for the Pratchett fans; more so this is for those that need humour in their cup of theatre ......."
Kosta Jaric - Fringe Benefits

"There are a lot of laughs in this production. There are the gender jokes of course, with a pair of socks playing a 'supporting' role throughout; the occasional fart noise; and a lot of crotch scratching, nose picking, swearing and swaggering from the girls being boys...........you could be serious about this evening out, of course. A recognisable theme is the folly of war, with many references applicable to more recent and real events......
Rosemary Cadden - Indaily

(FULL REVIEWS ATTACHED BELOW)

PREVIEW NIGHT AND FREE TIX (for holders of Health Care Cards) FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17

OPENING NIGHT FOR MEDIA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18

Season continues Wed to Sat until October 2.   All shows at 8pm

Unseen Theatre Company and The Bakehouse Theatre are proudly supported by Australian Audio and Lighting Technology (AALT)  8373 4222  www.aalt.com.au

From the novel by Sir Terry Pratchett.

We all know that man cannot survive on bread alone - unless of course he is Lord Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. 

Vetinari usually dines on bread and water followed by the oil that makes the city of Ankh-Morpork run smoothly.

In this year of the Pensive Hare, people were getting bored, and the oil was wearing a bit thin.  It was threatening to spread out of control via the vicious street game of foot-the-ball that people were turning to for their amusement. A game that they believed was more exciting than beating other people over the head with big weapons.

Football - like diplomacy and marriage. Short periods of fighting followed by long periods of negotiation.

"We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style" - Lord Havelock Vetinari

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

NOTE:
This show has a special bonus surprise being shown in the Studio Theatre during interval. The first 40 people to collect their tickets to the main stage will be given tickets to use in the Studio Theatre. Others may watch what is happening there on the monitor in the foyer.  So don't be late to pick up your tickets! Foyer doors open at 7.30pm. First in, first served!

Unseen Theatre Company  is proudly supported by AALT (Australian Audio & Lighting Technology)  8373 4222

www.aalt.com.au

SNIPPETS FROM REVIEWS:   (fulll reviews attached)

"Director Pamela Munt is wonderful at staging the epic and ridiculous, and here she's at the top of her game as she has her cast working their socks off...........the tale, of course, becomes absurdly comic and involves the world's greatest supermodel, a superb pie cook, goblins, orcs and monsters such as fashion designers and footballers...."
Stephen Davenport - Independent Weekly

"...this yarn of star crossed football fans, wizards and goblins was a delight with just the right amount of humour......Trudi Pavlovsky nursed those of us unschooled in Pratchett through the narrative...Mr. Nutt....was played with a soft and appealing demeanour by David Dyte....an honourable mention goes to Paul Messenger.........but the night belonged to Mark Ormsby and Philip Lineton...........this production deserves to be seen"
Howard Sumner - Australian Stage On-Line

"There's a crowd outside the Bakehouse Theatre. Instead of an orderly queue, it's a throng. A mob. A shove - which somehow seems appropriate for an audience waiting (impatiently) to see Unseen Theatre Company's presentation of Terry Pratchett's novel Unseen Academicals. What makes the production work is the quality of the supporting actors, the costumes, and the loving recreation of the Discworld by all involved."
Tony Busch - Adelaide Theatre Guide

The World Premiere, based on the novel by Sir Terry Pratchett.  Discworld is a world and a mirror of worlds. This is not a play about Australia. No, it's about somewhere entirely different which just happens to be, here and there, a bit... Australian. Still... no worries, right?

On the Discworld anything can happen.  Or even “not happen”. Sometimes its difficult to know which is which – even for the Wizards at Unseen University.   In this case, The Last Continent was “not happening”.  It was dying, even as it was being built, and even the Gods who were building it didn’t quite know what was going on.  Some thought it was to do with the spacetime continuum. Others thought that there was not enough magic left in the world to glue all the pieces together.  The one thing that they did agree on was that it needed a hero.  A hero who would eat a Pie Floater even when he was sober.

Starring a cast of thousands – most of them handmaidens.