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Discworld Plays Books in Order

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Find Discworld Plays in order, with a quick look at each script, staging notes, and where to start with Terry Pratchett’s theatre adaptations.

Last updated: December 26, 2025

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1

The Rince Cycle

by Terry Pratchett

2015

A stage adaptation that brings together early Rincewind adventures into one play. It turns the chaos of wizards, spells, and survival into a dialogue-driven script designed for live performance.

2

Maskerade

by Terry Pratchett

2015

The Lancre witches go to the opera, where a ghostly figure is causing trouble backstage. As murders pile up and masks start slipping, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg dig into the business of showmanship and secrets.

3

Making Money

by Terry Pratchett

2015

Moist von Lipwig is pushed into running the city’s bank, a job that sounds respectable until you meet the people who benefit from keeping money mysterious. He has to stop a financial disaster while learning what “trust” means.

4

All the Discworld's a Stage

by Terry Pratchett

2015

A collection of Discworld stage scripts that shows how the novels translate to theatre. It gathers multiple adaptations with practical staging notes, making it useful for both readers and theatre groups.

5

The Truth

by Terry Pratchett

2014

William de Worde starts a newspaper in Ankh-Morpork and learns that truth is messy, especially when powerful people prefer lies. With help from strange coworkers and a new printing press, he uncovers a conspiracy that could shake the city.

6

Wyrd Sisters

by Terry Pratchett

2011

Three witches in Lancre get caught up in a royal murder, a missing heir, and a flood of theatre-style drama. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg find that stories can be as dangerous as swords.

7

Mort

by Terry Pratchett

2011

Mort is an awkward farm boy who becomes apprentice to Death. Learning the job sounds simple until Mort starts making personal choices, and those choices threaten to tangle time, fate, and the lives he was meant to leave alone.

8

Men at Arms

by Terry Pratchett

2011

The City Watch starts recruiting outsiders, a troll, a dwarf, and more, just as a new weapon hits the streets. Sam Vimes must solve a murder while the city’s tensions threaten to boil over.

9

Lords and Ladies

by Terry Pratchett

2011

Lancre is hosting a royal wedding, and something ancient is trying to slip back into the world. Granny Weatherwax and the witches face the elves, beautiful, cruel, and dangerously persuasive.

10

Interesting Times

by Terry Pratchett

2011

Rincewind is kidnapped by mysterious agents and sent to the Agatean Empire, where revolution is brewing. Caught between warring factions and a powerful “great wizard” myth, he tries to survive another impossible trip.

11

Guards! Guards!

by Terry Pratchett

2011

The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is down to a few tired men and a lot of paperwork, until a secret society summons a dragon. Captain Sam Vimes has to solve a conspiracy in a city where crime is usually organized.

12

Carpe Jugulum

by Terry Pratchett

2010

A modern, well-organised vampire family moves into Lancre and assumes it can take over politely. Granny Weatherwax and her fellow witches meet a new kind of predator, and old methods may not be enough.

13

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

2009

Rincewind, a would-be wizard with no talent for staying alive, gets stuck guiding the Disc’s first tourist, Twoflower. Their trip across Discworld turns into a chain of disasters, run-ins with magic, and narrow escapes.

14

Hogfather

by Terry Pratchett

2007

Discworld’s version of Santa has gone missing, and Death decides to cover his shift. Susan Sto Helit races to find out who is erasing belief itself, before the world wakes up without its stories.

15

Monstrous Regiment

by Terry Pratchett

2005

A young woman disguises herself as a man to join the army and find her missing brother. In a war full of bad leadership and stranger secrets, her squad discovers that the “rules” of gender and patriotism are built on lies.

16

Jingo

by Terry Pratchett

2005

A long-lost island rises between two nations, and suddenly everyone wants a war. Sam Vimes is sent abroad to keep the peace, but politics, propaganda, and old grudges make that job nearly impossible.

17

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett

2005

Con man Moist von Lipwig is given a choice: hang or rebuild Ankh-Morpork’s broken Post Office. He takes the job, and immediately finds himself fighting sabotage, greedy rivals, and the city’s stubborn love of chaos.

18

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

by Terry Pratchett

2003

Maurice is a talking cat running a scam with a crew of unusually smart rats and a naive boy piper. When they reach a town that already has a rat problem, the con turns into a fight for survival and something like conscience.

Series background & context

Discworld Plays are stage adaptations that take Terry Pratchett’s Discworld stories and rebuild them for live theatre. Instead of footnotes and long asides, you get scenes, entrances, exits, and jokes designed to land in a room full of people. Some scripts are published on their own, and others appear in collections that group a few adaptations together.

Many of the scripts were adapted by Pratchett’s long-time collaborator Stephen Briggs, often with Pratchett’s involvement and approval. The point isn’t to rewrite the novels into something else, it’s to find a stage version that keeps the characters, the pacing, and the sense of mischief. It also means making hard choices about what to cut and what to turn into action, because theatre can’t rely on narrator voice the way a novel can.

They’re built for performance, not just for reading.

Because Discworld is such a wide setting, the plays usually pick a clear slice of it and commit. One script might stay with the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, another with the wizards of Unseen University, another with a Lancre-shaped tangle of witches and fairy tales. Alongside the dialogue you’ll usually find practical material, like cast lists, costume and prop notes, and stage directions that help you figure out how to suggest a dragon, a troll, or a magical accident without needing a film budget. Many scripts also allow for flexible casting, doubling roles, and inventive solutions that suit community theatres and school groups.

Some adaptations follow a single novel closely, while others combine ideas so the story works as one evening in the theatre. The Rince Cycle, for example, is designed to bring the early Rincewind adventures together in a coherent stage story. In collections like All the Discworld’s a Stage, you can see how different corners of Discworld adapt differently, from sports and student chaos in Unseen Academicals to murder, politics, and golems in Feet of Clay. The humour changes shape too, with visual gags, chorus-like crowd moments, and punchlines that are built for timing.

Expect jokes that work out loud.

If you’re a reader, these scripts are a fun way to revisit familiar stories through a new lens, and the tighter focus can make character moments pop. If you’re coming from theatre, this page’s order helps you see which scripts connect, what each one is based on, and which play is the best starting point for your cast and audience. Either way, the plays are a reminder that Discworld is built on strong scenes, not just clever lines.

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