Going Postal

A hilarious send-up of the age of technology
25 Nov 2005 to 10 Dec 2005 Wed to Sat at 8pm
This show has finished
Venue
Performance dates
  • 25 Nov 2005 8:00pm (Fri)Opening night
  • 26 Nov 2005 8:00pm (Sat)
  • 30 Nov 2005 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 7 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 8 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Thu)
  • 9 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Fri)
  • 10 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Sat)

Funnier than most and superbly realised by director Pamela Munt. No previous Discworld play in this city has come close... the best Discworld play this side of A’Tuin... Funny, fast and unbeatably fabulous. See it before the season ends on 10 December. (Rod Lewis, Encore Magazine)

This show has finished
Venue
Performance dates
  • 25 Nov 2005 8:00pm (Fri)Opening night
  • 26 Nov 2005 8:00pm (Sat)
  • 30 Nov 2005 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 7 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Wed)
  • 8 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Thu)
  • 9 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Fri)
  • 10 Dec 2005 8:00pm (Sat)

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist, a fraud and a man faced with a life choice – be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet.

It was a tough decision, but perhaps there’s a shot at redemption for a man who’s prepared to push the envelope.

Pratchett again uses his “Discworld” where anything can happen, and it often does, as a parody of our own.

This time it’s not a battle between Trolls and Dwarves, but a battle between the services of the Clacks Towers (read electronic communication) and that of the Post Office (read “snail mail”).

Maybe our Post Office could use a hero like Moist von Lipwig to remind us that in an email, you cannot include a pressed flower, smell the perfumed pages, or even seal it with a kiss. Well, not a real one anyway.

In this crazy modern world, how many of us could end up “going postal”?