Malta Theatre

Mid-Djarju ta’ Student Fi Skola Tal-Knisja: Gold

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Jamie Cardona in Mid-Djarju ta' Student Fi Skola Tal-Knisja. Photo on the right: Owen Michael Grech I approached Mid-Djarju ta' Student Fi Skola Tal-Knisja with some mixed feelings. On the one hand, the one time I had seen actor and writer Jamie Cardona in action (those words are about to get a very different meaning) was in Il-Giddieb Għomru Twil, where he made a simply … [Read more...] about Mid-Djarju ta’ Student Fi Skola Tal-Knisja: Gold

God of Carnage: Brutal, 100% effective satire

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Charlotte Grech, Chris Dingli and Chiara Hyzler in God of Carnage. Photo: Nisġa We all love a good train wreck on stage, especially the emotional kind. Yasmina Reza happens to specialise in human train wrecks, as we've already witness in the locally-produced version of Art. If you thought that Art was a particularly savage take on human foibles, welcome to God of Carnage. A … [Read more...] about God of Carnage: Brutal, 100% effective satire

Masquerade’s Oliver! The Musical

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Masquerade's Oliver! The Musical follows a long list of similarly spectacular largescale productions that included Mamma Mia The Musical and My Fair Lady (FM Theatre). I'm of an age where I remember the days that the idea of staging a full musical in Malta was ludicrous. We have had many, so many, excerpts with the most well-known pieces. But the real deal with costumes, … [Read more...] about Masquerade’s Oliver! The Musical

Mothers & Sons review: powerful

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The relationship between a stubborn, conservative mother and her gay son is bound to be complicated. Add the AIDS pandemic that decimated the population of gay males in the 1980s and a previously unacknowledged partner who remarries and has a son, and top it off with a surprise visit to the latter's New York apartment by the former ‘mother-in-law’. The result is Mothers and … [Read more...] about Mothers & Sons review: powerful