The Truth: Stage Adaptation

The Truth is prime Pratchett, and the start of the Ankh-Morpork industrial revolution series. William de Worde is the impoverished and oddly ethical scion of a noble family, who writes a few odd letters on important happenings, when he stumbles into the technological revolution of printing, the social revolution of journalism, and a complicated and corrupt plot to depose Lord Vetinari featuring a pair of killers who wandered out of a Tarantino movie. The usual Pratchett humor and ethics are on full display here, and while the topics aren’t exactly fresh, he handles them deftly, asking us to ask ‘who are the ‘they’ that make everything official, and what is the power of the printed word?

It’s —ing good!