The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
16-19 November 2016
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds
a Discworld® play by Terry Pratchett® adapted for the stage by Steven Briggs
directed by Jane Curtin and Alex Plygawko
Maurice, an amazing cat, who has survived four years on the toughest streets in the whole of the Discworld, reckons that rats are dumb. Clever, OK, but dumb. Maurice, however, is smart -- smart enough to recognize that there's a new kind of rat around; rats that have been eating wizards' rubbish and can now talk. And Maurice is also smart enough to get a pretty amazing idea when he spots a kid playing the flute. Now he has his very own Pied Piper to go with his "plague of rats." And Maurice's money-bags are getting fuller and fuller. That is, until the group reaches the far flung village of Bad Blintz and they soon realise that this town is different. The rats spread out on their mission to dismantle traps, bury poison, do some serious widdling, and to find out exactly what those resident rat-catchers are up to. But something very bad is waiting for Maurice and the gang in the cellars...
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Tickets:
£12/£10 concessions Family (2+2) £40 Performance times: 7pm on Wed. 16, Thur. 17 & Fri. 18 November 2016 12 noon & 5pm on Sat 19 November 2016 Duration approx 160 minutes (to incl. one interval) Guidance: Leeds Children's Theatre would advise that this play may not be suitable for children under 7 as the show includes scenes that younger children may find frightening. Our version of the story was adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, and is published by Oxford University Press.
"I am impressed with Stephen Briggs' adaptation...the script is clear and straightforward...the quality of the language and the underlying issues of the story lend themselves to the Key Stage 3 literacy and PSHE agendas" Paul Bunyan, Drama Adviser for Northants |
The 2001 Carnegie Medal for ‘The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents’, was Terry Pratchett’s first mainstream literary award, despite worldwide popularity; and was also his first children’s book set in Pratchett’s legendary Discworld.
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