Men At Arms

“Ankh-Morpork City Watch make the Keystone Cops look like The Sweeney. In this fast-paced comic adventure they have to deal with dead clowns, anxious assassins, exploding swamp dragons and the Discworld’s first gun. Dwarves, trolls, vampires, seven-foot skeletons, raving lunatics – this is Terry Pratchett onna stick!” (Taken from the programme)

Cast & Crew

Cast

‘Nobby’ Nobbs
Angua
Beano
Bjorn Hammerhock
Boffo
Carrot Ironfoundersson
Cornice-overlooking-Broadway (a gargoyle)
Cuddy
Death
Detritus
Downey
Dr Cruces
Dr Whiteface
Drumknott
Edward d’Eath
Footnote
Frederick Colon
Havelock Vetinari
Lady Sybil Ramkin
Leonard Da Quirm
Morecombe
Quirke
Rust
Samuel Vimes
Skater
The Werewolf
Willikins

Crew

Director
Lighting Designer
Marketing Manager
Producer
Production Manager
Pyrotechnics
Set Designer
Stage Manager
Wardrobe Mistress

Seen by

Photographs

If you have a photograph or picture that illustrates this production, please sign in to upload it, or add it to Flickr and tag it with .

Play description

Based on the Terry Pratchett novel ‘Men at Arms’.

“Ankh-Morpork City Watch make the Keystone Cops look like The Sweeney. In this fast-paced comic adventure they have to deal with dead clowns, anxious assassins, exploding swamp dragons and the Discworld’s first gun. Dwarves, trolls, vampires, seven-foot skeletons, raving lunatics – this is Terry Pratchett onna stick!” (Taken from the programme produced for the Shoshanah Productions 9–13 October 2001 version of this play)

Observations

  1. On 5th April 2010 at 11:48 p.m., Deborah noted:

    I was lucky enough to see this fab and fun production twice – a performance early in the run, and then the very last show. This meant I was able to pick up on the practical jokes and tricks that the cast introduced to celebrate the final performance – I was very impressed that everyone managed to keep a straight face and that no one corpsed, despite the various misplaced post-it notes, and (apparently!) naughty words written on eggs that threatened to do otherwise!

    Luckily for a nine-year old production, a review is still available online. This is what Alex Williams at the Daily Info thought: http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/theatre/menatarms.htm

If you have an interesting observation or anecdote about this production that you think others may be interested in, please sign in in order to record it here.