Published Date:
20 August 2003
By James Smart
C (VENUE 34)
TRANSLATING a big book into a short play isn’t easy, and Wonderland Productions’ take on Pratchett’s entertaining vision of cops and dragons is high on energy and low on detail.
The acting is over-earnest, the orang-utan is funky and the newly inserted cultural references (The Matrix and Dirty Harry) are depressingly predictable.
The whole show adds up to a threadbare but fun piece of theatre.
• 3pm today. Until 24 August
The full article contains 91 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
19 August 2003 7:32 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Terry Pratchett
