Monstrous Regiment

Women of the world unite! A call to arms that will have you laughing your socks off!

Preview(s):

17 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Fri)

Opening night:

18 Sep 2010, 8.00am (Sat)

Season continues:

Wed to Sat at 8pm

until

02 Oct 2010 (Sat)

Media members please book your tickets for Opening Night.

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Venue:

The Bakehouse Theatre

Pricing:

Preview Night $15, Free Tix (for health care card holders) $0. All other nights Adult $18, Conc $15, Groups (of 10+) $14, Fringe Benefits $14

Duration:

2 hours plus a 15 minute interval

Credits:

Original Novel by Sir Terry Pratchett
Adaptation by Stephen Briggs
Produced with permission of Methuen Drama
Directed by Pamela Munt
Performed by a cast of "thousands"

Preview dates:

17 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Fri)

Opening night:

18 Sep 2010, 8.00am (Sat)

Continuing dates:

22 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Wed)

23 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Thu)

24 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Fri)

25 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Sat)

27 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Mon)

28 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Tue)

29 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Wed)

30 Sep 2010, 8.00pm (Thu)

01 Oct 2010, 8.00pm (Fri)

02 Oct 2010, 8.00pm (Sat)

Nobody presents a Pratchett play like Pamela Munt and her Unseen Theatre Company.
Monstrous Regiment, their latest offering at the Bakehouse Theatre is another winner.
Stephen Davenport - Australian Stage Online

Pratchett fans will love this and rightly so. This production seems to find most of the available humour and develops the always present Pratchett, social comment.
Fran Edwards - Adelaide Theatre Guide

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, inconsenant, 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 may take more time......but nothing is going to stop her enlisting in the Borogravian Army to search for her 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 they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army, a vampire with a lust for coffee 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.

Unseen Theatre Company is proudly supported by Australian Audio and Lighting Technology. www.aalt.com.au

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