Book:Wyrd Sisters
| Wyrd Sisters | |
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| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
| Publication date | November 1988 |
| ISBN | 0552134600 |
| Pages | 251 |
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| Main characters | Esme Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick |
| Series | Witches Series |
| Annotations | View |
| Notes | Book #06 |
| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
Blurb
Witches are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.
Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.
But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ...
Characters
Main characters
- Esme Weatherwax
- Nanny Ogg
- Magrat Garlick
- King Verence
- Leonal Felmet and Lady Felmet
- The Fool
- Tomjon
- Olwyn Vitoller
- Hwel
Minor characters
Cameos and Mentions
- Goodie Whemper, now dead witch who tutored Magrat
- Former Lancre Kings and Queens
- Bentzen, ruthlessly efficient killer
- Havelock Vetinari
Locations
- Ramtops
- Lancre
- Lancre Castle
- Long Gallery, gallery of regal portraits
- The Standing Stone
- Lancre Castle
- Mad Wolf (mentioned)
- Razorback (mentioned)
- Lancre
- Klatch (mentioned)
- Thespia (mentioned)
- Howondaland (mentioned)
- Hergen (mentioned)
- Sto Plains (mentioned)
Sentient Species
Supernatural Entities
Things/etc Referenced
- Cripple Mister Onion
- Zen, sub-sect of the philosophical system of Sumtin ("something"?)
- The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All, a drinking song w/ anal undertones
- A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End, a drinking song w/ phallic overtones
Roundworld references
- Hamlet and Macbeth, plays by William Shakespeare (both in the main storyline and the play Hwel writes for Felmet)
- Snakes and Ladders, a child's game (aka "Chutes and Ladders")
- Gormenghast, a foreboding fictional castle (also mentioned in Equal Rites)
- Zen, a philosophical system
- The Marx Brothers (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
- Charlie Chaplin (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
- Laurel and Hardy (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
Adaptions
Radio
A 4-part dramatisation was performed for BBC Radio 4, starring Sheila Hancock and Lynda Baron.
Television
| Book:Wyrd Sisters | |
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| ASIN | B00004CV82 |
| IMDB | 0159931 |
| First Broadcast | 18 May 1997 |
| Broadcast Channel | Channel 4 |
| Director(s) | Jean Flynn |
| Producer(s) | |
| Writer(s) | {{{writer}}} |
| Starring | Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield |
| Duration | 147 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Series | Witches Series |
| Annotations | Annotations for Book:Wyrd Sisters |
| Notes | |
| Preceded by | Welcome to the Discworld |
| Followed by | Soul Music |
| All data relates to the UK home release. | |
Wyrd Sisters became a two-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 18 May 1997. It was the second film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the Welcome to the Discworld short, which was based on a fragment of the novel Reaper Man, and the Soul Music series). The VHS release spanned three tapes.
Cast
- Granny Weatherwax - Annette Crosbie (One Foot in the Grave, Edward the Seventh)
- Nanny Ogg - June Whitfield (Terry and June, Last of the Summer Wine)
- Magrat Garlick - Jane Horrocks (Little Voice, Chicken Run)
- Death - Christopher Lee (The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings trilogy)
- Lady Felmet - Eleanor Bron (Help!, the voice of BT)
- The Fool / Tomjon - Les Dennis (Family Fortunes)
- Additional Voices - Jimmy Hibbert
Theatre
Wyrd Sisters was the first ever Discworld Novel to be adapted into a stage-play by Stephen Briggs.
External links
Wyrd Sisters Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File
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