Marjelena

Marjelena’s sorrows are not so different from her joys, and that which happened in the past seems to haunt her till this very day. Although she has been abused in different ways in the past, her suffering now does not differ.

But what had happened to Marjelena? And who is she? What does she do?

Script: Leanne Ellul

Director: Josette Ciappara

Producers: Bakkanti Troupe

Actors: Alison Abela, Louise Fenech, Gilbert Formosa, Mandy Mifsud, Olivia-Ann Marmarà, David Scicluna Giusti and Aldo Zammit

Ma Rridx Immur

Casey, at twenty years of age, is suffering from a terminal illness. But death is not an issue compared with her everyday problems. Through intimate dialogues filled with tension and unrest, we unravel Casey’s relationship with those closest to her – Samantha, her best friend; Alfio, her boyfriend; and Mary, his grandmother. And Casey’s father: the childhood nightmare that resurfaces. The past, savage and cruel, seems to haunt her to this day. Ma Rridx Immur explores life, love, anger, and death. The future? A distorted dream.

Script: Leanne Ellul,

Director: Jimmy Grima

Producers: the rubberbodies collective, Teatru Manoel, Arts Council Malta

Actors: Ruth Borg, Ryan Cutajar, Marta Vella and Josette Ciappara

the gżira project

The Gżira Project – an immersive community theatre experience that tells the hidden stories of the women who worked behind the scenes of the Salesian Theatre until they were eventually allowed on stage with the men in the 1970s.

The performance features a tour of the backstage rooms of this historic old building from the 1940s to the present day to hear both factual and fictional fragments from the lives of the women who sewed, painted, fed and brought up the next generation while their husbands, fathers and brothers acted on stage.

Through real-life stories, actual events and experiences, the theatre traced the history of this unique ‘island’ in the busy centre of Sliema.

L-Għarusa Karfusa

“L-Għarusa Karfusa is your classic tale of forbidden love between a fruit and a vegetable. In this absurd satirical universe where the villagers are named after vegetables, the inhabitants of 'Ħal Kawlata' are forbidden to talk to ones left in the forbidden quarantine; let alone fall in love! When Karfusa from the vegetable hamlet lays her pretty eyes on Bajtru in the scheduled quarantine, all hell breaks loose.”

Script: Leanne Ellul

Director & Concept: Jacob Piccinino

Producers: Teatru Malta, Festivals Malta, Karnival ta’ Malta and Il-Karnival ta’ Għawdex

Actors: Mariele Zammit, Victor Barrere, Lee-N Abela, Arthur Dumas and Patrick Laera

Rulina

Rulina is an original artistic experience which made it to the Valletta 2018 cultural calendar and is an engaging experience of music, literature and dance with the involvement of 28 musicians playing traditional Maltese band instruments.

Rulina delves into four traditional games, namely Dawra Durella, Pizzi Pizzi Kanna, iż-Żunżana Ddur Iddur and Kastig to alternate traditional with contemporary performance.

sitt ġrajjiet u naqra għala spiċċajna (kif spiċċajna)

sitt ġrajjiet u naqra għala spiċċajna (kif spiċċajna), a collaboration between ŻiguŻajg and ŻfinMalta combining movement, poetry, music and more, presents a lyrical take on the big issues affecting young people today. How did we end up here? And what do we do now?