Interviews with actors, directors, theatre reviews, features.
Hilarious and poignant, vaginal sores and all. As I cackled and guffawed all throughout actress Rebecca Camilleri’s interpretation of Sunrise by Jessie Cave (FM Productions, at the Splendid in Valletta), the thought kept running through my head: This woman is… Read moreTheatre Review: Sunrise by Jessie Cave
This may be one of Shakespeare’s less popular pieces, but it looks set to be fierce AF. It’s a good year for The Bard, in Malta, what with opera and theatre seemingly going through his entire opus. Now, Roaring Voices… Read moreThe Two Noble Kinsmen in first time Malta production
L-Interrogazzjoni blurs the lines of reality and superbly messes with our heads When I first read that Alfred Buttigieg’s L-Interrogazzjoni would be held in a private villa, instead of the usual theatre space, I had two reactions. I was intrigued,… Read moreTheatre Review: L-Interrogazzjoni
Sunrise FM Theatre – Jessie Cave’s one-woman show hits Malta Remember Jessie Cave, the actress who played Ron Weasley’s girlfriend and wound up werewolf fodder in the Harry Potter series? Guess what – she didn’t take too long to emerge… Read moreINTERVIEW: Sexual accidents, Harry Potter conventions and Instagram espionage
The Addams Family Malta is about to hit and Nadia Vella promises to make the ultimate Wednesday She loves all colours, as long as they’re black. Not ‘very smiley’, is a lover of all things dark and is not afraid… Read moreWATCH: ‘There’s no easy way to define normal, it’s so subjective’
Sometimes, you just want to go to theatre to be entertained with a fail-proof narrative with the tried and tested lines of a classic. Guilty as charged. As long as the beloved classic is in the hands of a cast… Read moreTheatre Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
Teatru Malta’s L-Interrogazzjoni is scripted by a writer who is no stranger to controversy. Writer Alfred Buttigieg is no stranger to creating controversy, and Teatru Malta’s L-Interrogazzjoni promises to add more. I’m sure that by now he gets tired of… Read moreWATCH: A murder, a cover-up… sounds familiar?
Oscar Wilde, the ultimate wag, lands at Teatru Manoel with The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the playwrights most widely-lauded scripts. With the tagline ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People‘, you don’t need to be a committed Wildian to… Read moreA purely Victorian send-up, or totally relatable satire?
Teatru Malta 2020 proposes some exciting ideas. Will expectations be met? The Teatru Malta 2020 programme, launched Friday at Spazju Kreattiv, quotes a 75% audience attendance that, if accurate, points towards Malta’s national theatre company making considerable inroads into one… Read moreTeatru Malta 2020: Sunny With A Chance Of Awesome
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’