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sveste@onvol.net
| | Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 10:37 am: | |
WIN TICKETS to this play! Follow this link:
http://www.manicmalta.com/mailshot/20070217_l-ghal liema-tickets.htm |
Ixidor
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 4:28 am: | |
Stop…..reflect…… a person you deeply loved, was given the power by a new government to come in the middle of the night and take away those you hold close to your heart. You know who captured them…but you do not know where they are! All you know is that if you try and help them you can end up like them if not worse!
Keep thinking for a while….that those captured are being tortured and accused of false crimes. You know that they are detained somewhere secret because they might be an obstacle to those in power…they are the victims used to warn you and others not to act!
This is reality…a current injustice that is happening right now while you are reading!…What will you do? What are you going to do?
This is the experience that the new theatrical group Ixidor is living through their latest stage production “L-Ghalliema”, inspired from “La Maestra” by the Mexican playwright Enrique Buenaventura. “L-Ghalliema” is set in a timeless village where you and I could be living.
The main character is a nameless young woman simply known as the schoolteacher but who sees her life and that of those she loves slowly destroyed in front of her very eyes by the man she once knew as a friend and lover. Her story is the story of people living around us in their everyday life about whom we read often in the newspapers and hear on the news on radio and television.
We know about them but we merely go on about our daily lives because they are faceless and just words. We live conveniently in the comfortable and safe gaps between these horrible stories because they are happening to other women and other men. “L-Ghalliema” endows these anonymities with humanity and breathes life into these people whose existence is turned upside down by both domestic and political abuse.
Their story must be told and we are the witnesses who cannot simply walk away.
This work is being put up in collaboration with Amnesty International, Malta. It will be staged on the 3rd and 4th of March 2007 at the MITP, St. Christopher Street, Valletta at 8pm. Actors taking part are Christine Borg, Sharon Bezzina, Mario Abela, Stephen Buhagiar, Daniela Delia, Elisa Delia and Adrian Azzopardi directed by Charles Sammut. Tickets can be bought at the St. James Cavalier box office 21223200.
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