mort
A brand new musical about life and Death
with book & lyrics by Jenifer Toksvig
and music by Dominic Haslam
 
Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, so we ask you to please consider visiting the Alzheimer's Research Trust to make a donation. Thank you.
 
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. Now the poor boy is apprenticed to an anthropomorphic personification who is having a mid-existence crisis.
 
And he's fallen in love with a Princess who should be dead. Also, he's created an alternative reality that might end the universe. Still, it could be worse. At least he's not facing a life or Death situa... oh dear.
 
 
Click on the song titles to listen to demos of some music from the show performed by the writers
 
Make A Living
The village boys and their parents attend the annual Apprentice Hiring Fair. Mort and his father can't quite get the hang of it.
 
Beautiful
Mort is a rather inexperienced when it comes to girls. Here, he sings the least successful love song ever sung by a boy.
 
How Do I Feel?
Death ponders the meaning of living.
 
Dear Son, Dear Mum
The village boys are busy learning their new trades, and they write letters home.
 
I Feel Alive
Death gets a job as a cook in a greasy spoon - and finds the meaning of living.
 
 
Featuring an eight-foot tall dancing skeleton (click here for video), this new musical adaptation of Terry Pratchett's classic Discworld novel has been through several development stages:
 
YMT:UK
August 2007
2 week workshop
Presentation of the first act at Manchester Library Theatre
Director - Clive Paget
Musical Director - Mark Dougherty
Choreographer - Sam Spencer-Lane
 
YMT:UK
August 2008
3 week workshop
Production at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
Director - Clive Paget
Musical Director - Jan Winstone
Assistant Musical Director - Matthew Shenton
Choreographer - Lucie Pankhurst
 
The brilliant Death puppet, below, was designed and built for the YMT productions by the very clever Richard Johnston