Part of Malta’s history can be relived during Notte Bianca on 25 September 2010 at St John’s Cavalier. Addio del Passato is a theatre installation project featuring Pino Scicluna based on the ‘internati’ in Malta during World War II. It will be held from 6pm until 3am.
It is 1942, during World War II. 41 Maltese professionals, intellectuals, politicians, businessmen, a monsignor and dockyard workers, with different views to those of the norm, were forced to live together for four years deprived of their freedom and their family. They were in constant peril and far from their home.
Actor, Pino Scicluna, explains: “My father Joseph Scicluna (Balilla) was 23 years old at the time, and one of the youngest of the Maltese. I recall his stories, which he told me before his death at 52; I was 10 years old then and I am pleased to be sharing my insights now.” This theatrical installation covers a four-year period between 1940 and 1944 and goes from Malta to Uganda and back. Audience members will first encounter the period when the Maltese internees were held in detention in Malta, followed by the painful deportation of 42 of them to Uganda. The installation is accompanied by a soundtrack of music and evocative sounds, as well as speeches by Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, Goebbels, General Patton and more.