THEATRE

Equus

2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 November at St James Cavalier, Valletta

Peter Shaffer’s great classic about a boy who blinds six horses. An insight to man’s need to worship and the distortions forced on that need by so-called civilised society. Alan Strang (Sean Buhagiar) seems a normal, obedient 17-year old with a passion for horses. Then one night he blinds six horses with a hoof pick. What drove him to it? Only psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Alan Paris) seems able to grasp the answer to this psychological puzzle.

Unifaun Theatre undertake this unique production which promises to be exciting and controversial as their usual stuff. The play is directed by Marcelle Theuma and the cast includes Alan Paris, Pia Zammit, Sean Buhagiar, Jo Caruana, Colin Willis, Jean Pierre Agius, Lilian Pace, Valerie Blow, Kane O’Flaherty, Kurt Castillo and Edward Degaetano.

Il-Qaddej taz-Zewg Sidien

9-11 November at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta

To celebrate Goldoni’s 300th anniversary, Maleth is presenting A Servant of Two Masters. This play is filled with broad humour and mistaken identity. While Truffaldino tries to be a personal servant to two masters, these two masters fall in love and complications evolve.

Emperor’s New Clothes

17, 18 November at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta

The Riverside Theatre Company all the way from South Africa will be performing this adaptation by Leslie Ehrhardt, a fascinating tale to enthuse and delight the young and young at heart.

Lucrezia Borgia

24, 25, 30 November, 1, 2 December at St James Cavalier, Valletta

Lucrezia Borgia: the very name has become a slur. It conjures up images of unspeakable corruption in female form. It sends visions of a beautiful, heartless, rapacious, carnal, treacherous femme fatale dancing through the popular consciousness.

Her reputation for foulness has achieved mythic proportions. She is seen as the ultimate counterpart to her monstrous brother Cesare. Together with their father Pope Alexander VI, they seem to create a perfect triangle of dastardliness. Poisonings, stabbings and garrotting are believed to be among the favourite pastimes of these three.

This is the general image of Lucrezia Borgia that has prevailed since her own lifetime. However, as time has passed, scholars have re-examined her life in an attempt to ascertain how much of this is truth and how much is fiction.

Lucrezia has emerged from this scholarship in the form of a pleasant, passive, characterless, shallow woman used as a political pawn by both her father and Cesare. In order to gain some insight into which, if either, of these views is the more correct, it is necessary to examine the major events of Lucrezia’s life as they are known to us.

Following last April’s success of Frankenstein, Lemonhead Productions will be presenting Lucrezia Borgia, an original piece penned by producer Bryan Muscat. The play, directed by Noel Tanti, revolves around this notorious woman. The play stars Michelle Bonnici, Neville Refalo and Sandro Vella amongst others.

Bookings can be made from St James Cavalier on 2122-3216.

MUSIC

Birmingham Conservatoire Guitar Series

2, 3 November at the Music room, St James Cavalier, 1, 4 November at St Catherine of Italy

The Music room and St Catherine of Italy Church host a group of eight guitarists from the Birmingham Conservatoire with an exciting programme of solo works, duos and quartets.

The Haydn Trio of Eisenstadt

20 November at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta

Teatru Manoel and the Malta International Airport are proud to present the world famous Haydn Trio made up of Harold Kosik (piano), Verena Stourzh (violin) and Hannes Gradwohl (cello). For this concert these prolific musicians will be joined by mezzo soprano Lydia Verlinger.

Tango Jazz

24, 25 November at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta

Returning to the Manoel after 20 years, Tango Jazz is choreographed by Renato Grech and Maria Teresa to classical music, Piazzola’s rhythms and also Neapolitan songs.

CINEMA

Students’ Cinema Day

3 November in local cinemas

KRS Film Distributors is pleased to announce the sixth annual Students Cinema Day.

On the day six cinemas with a total of 39 screens will be offering students in Malta and Gozo a choice from no fewer than 17 films at a reduced price of admission of Lm1.15/EUR2.68 for persons under 16 years of age and Lm1.50/EUR3.49 if 16 years and over.

Malta International Film Festival

31 October-13 November in local cinemas

KRS Film Distributors present the fourth edition of the Malta International Film Festival, giving cinema-goers and film fans the opportunity to watch 14 films from all over the world. The films will be shown in the three main cinemas: Eden Century Cinemas in St Julian’s, Embassy Cinemas in Valletta and the Empire Cinema in Bugibba. The festival will show films that have either won or are nominated for awards at prestigious film festivals. The films vary from political, war, comedy, drama, fantasy and thrillers and were produced in France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Israel, Palestine, Venezuela, Chile, Japan, Republic of Korea and South Africa.

VISUAL ARTS

Artworks

10-23 November at Gallery G, Lija

Artists Alfred Briffa and Lawrence Buttigieg will hold a joint exhibition at Gallery G, Lija. This event is the result of their long established friendship.

Gallery G (No 4, Sir Ugo Mifsud Street, Lija) is open between 9am and 5pm weekdays and 9.30am and 12.30pm on Saturdays.

Inspirations and Reflections

16 November-7 December at Gallery G, Lija

Born in Sale, England in 1949, Winston Hassall began his artistic career as a textile artist in UK and Eire. Later in his life, his work required much travelling and this self-thought artist soon fell in love with what Malta has to offer to someone with a keen eye for the local landscapes and colours.

Married and residing in Valletta, Winston has been called “The Valletta Artist” for his countless works highlighting our Capital’s streetscapes and architecture. During these last years, he has found that watercolours enable him to produce striking effects of the Maltese urban scenery. Of recently, he has added acrylic as a new medium as well as the palette knife.

Gallery G (No 4, Sir Ugo Mifsud Street, Lija) is open between 9am and 5pm weekdays and 9.30am and 12.30pm on Saturdays.

Two Harbours

23 November-6 January at St James Cavalier, Valletta

James Vella Clarke’s exhibition reflects the dualism, struggle, a continuous tension of extremes and opposition in everyday circumstances translated and expressed through colour on canvas.

This information is correct at the time of printing

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