Interviews with actors, directors, theatre reviews, features.
Chiara Hyzler is directing JamBoy, part of the ŻiguŻajg Children’s Festival. She explains how the play targets the competitive element we foster in today’s students. What was your first reaction when you read the script? As a member of the… Read more‘Every child is different and this is 100% acceptable’
ŻiguŻajg‘s Jamboy takes to task the current school system. With more focus being placed on learning things by rote and studying for exams rather than for actual learning the subject, playwright Denise Mulholland feels that it is no surprise that… Read more‘If you run an education system that suppresses creativity, don’t be surprised when that’s what it does’
Three Palaces Festival to see Caravaggio’s most famous paintings brought alive as Ludovica Rambelli Theatre create a Tableau Vivante.
Visceral and unapologetically primeval. Min Hi, Teatru Malta’s newest offering, was made public to a storm of controversy, thanks to some highly effective pieces of street theatre. I have to confess that I tend to be quite wary when this… Read moreMin Hi: a tour de force for Teatru Malta
Dr Thomas Craig’s theatrical seance has moved to a new location in Paola, but the Ouija Board is still on!
Malta’s theatre – a state of play We are all in agreement that Simone Spiteri’s seminal work Appuntamenti was a game-changer on the Maltese theatre scene. Only… was it, really? It certainly opened up the gates for potential change. It… Read moreAppuntamenti – so did it really change the game?
Simone Spiteri’s Appuntamenti, winner of the Francis Ebejer Prize for Playwrights in 2009, is being staged by Du Theatre.
All-female cast for Accidental Death of an Anarchist When Masquerade stages the famous political farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist this November, it will be difficult for the audience not to draw parallels between the real-life event that Nobel Prize-winning… Read moreMasquerade takes on powerful political satire
‘Certain demographics are not exposed to art, and do not distinguish between an artistic statement and reality’ Reuben Zahra, the artistic director and composer behind Teatru Malta‘s upcoming stage production Min Hi? explains he has always been fascinated by grotesque… Read moreAfter street performances, Min Hi to hit Realto stages
Ben Elton’s hit musical, We Will Rock You, kicks off this weekend Get ready to raise the roof in the Malta debut of We Will Rock You, the musical phenomenon by Queen and Blackadder-writer Ben Elton. FM Theatre Productions is… Read moreMalta is ready to rock!