The Fifth Elephant

Death was his constant companion... He just wasn't supposed to be visible!
11 Oct 2002 to 26 Oct 2002 Wed to Sat at 8pm
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Venue
Performance dates
  • 11 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Fri)Preview
  • 12 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Sat)Opening night
  • 16 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 17 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Thu)
  • 18 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Fri)
  • 19 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Sat)
  • 23 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 24 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Thu)
  • 25 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Fri)
  • 26 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Sat)

Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the City Watch [is] played wonderfully by George Leaman... Nick Hargreaves threatens to steal the show as dumb Detritus... Melanie Munt is a star as always. (Rod Lewis, Adelaide Theatre Guide)

This show has finished
Venue
Performance dates
  • 11 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Fri)Preview
  • 12 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Sat)Opening night
  • 16 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 17 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Thu)
  • 18 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Fri)
  • 19 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Sat)
  • 23 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 24 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Thu)
  • 25 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Fri)
  • 26 Oct 2002 8:00pm (Sat)

Unseen Theatre Company presents another in the stories of the intrepid City Watch, the law-enforcement officers of Ankh-Morpork who make the Keystone Cops look good.

This time our beloved Captain has been promoted to “Commander” Vimes. He and his country bred, aristocratic wife Sybil have been sent by the Patrician as ambassadors to Uberwald – a country of Vampyres, Werewolfs and Dwarfs. A country which, according to the Patrician “remains a mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma”.

Vimes may now be a Duke but he is still not very good at diplomacy. He explains Uberwald as a “big suet pudding that everyone’s suddenly noticed” and the coronation as “an excuse for everyone to rush there with knife, fork and spoon to shovel as much on their plates as posssible”.

He’s right of course.

In diplomatic language though, his job is to establish trade links with the Low King of the Dwarfs. He is just a bit confused about why he was given the job. After all as everyone knows “policemen don’t go on holiday. Where you get policemen, you get crime. If he goes to Uberwald, there will be a crime.”

He’s right again…