The Iranian-born French playwright Yasmina Reza has become something of a byword for intelligent comedies. Her latest and so far most successful play Life x 3 (she is also the author of the critically-acclaimed Art which was performed in Malta a few years ago) will be the MADC’s next production at The Manoel Theatre on the 30, 31 March and 1 April.

Describing what happens in Life x 3 is not terribly easy. This is a play about anxiety, sex, pecking orders, sex, hosiery, sex, prestige, sex, self-doubt and sex. But, above all, it is one of the brightest, most sanguine pieces of writing for the stage in quite a long time.

Four very divergent characters make up the play: Henri and Sonia are a 30-something professional couple with a spoilt brat of a six-year old son, Arnaud. They invite Henri’s research director Hubert Finidori and his wife Ines to dinner at their Parisian apartment. But when the Finidoris turn up, Henri and Sonia realise that they have miscalculated what day it is, and they are totally unprepared to host a dinner party. The playwright then allows the audience, to see three versions of what ensues.

It’s all great fun – unless it’s ever happened to you – and it will make for one hell of an evening in the theatre.

For Life x 3 the MADC has assembled a very strong cast. Henri will be played by Alex Grech, Sonia by Coryse Borg, Hubert by Anthony Ellul and Ines by Vanessa Macdonald (pictured above). The play is directed by Jon Rosser.

Tickets may be purchased from the Manoel Theatre’s booking office in Valletta, tel. no. 2124-6389, fax no. 2123-7340 or email [email protected] and online booking from website www.teatrumanoel.com.mt More information is available from the website www.madc.biz