Book:Wyrd Sisters

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Wyrd Sisters
Cover art by Josh Kirby
Co-author(s)
Illustrator(s)
Publisher Victor Gollancz
Publication date November 1988
ISBN 0552134600
Pages 251
RRP
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

Minor characters

Cameos and Mentions

  • Goodie Whemper, now dead witch who tutored Magrat
  • Former Lancre Kings and Queens
    • Champot
    • Queen Grimnir, the Impaler (1514*1553, 1553*1557, 1557*1562, 1562*1567 and 1568*1573) [note the 57 reference in her 2nd reign], a vampire queen
  • Bentzen, ruthlessly efficient killer
  • Havelock Vetinari

Locations

Sentient Species

Supernatural Entities

Things/etc Referenced

Roundworld references

  • 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
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

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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