The recent saga involving the murder of Sarah Scazzi in Italy, which has been given massive media attention, has been “transformed” into a forum theatre project by the Malta Drama Centre.

The case has been dramatised to focus on the phenomenon of child and adolescent sexual abuse, even within a domestic environment.

Actors from the Community Theatre course, conducted by Dorothy Singh and Mario Azzopardi, the centre’s coordinator, are currently touring towns and villages with the play. The first presentation was recently held at Siggiewi.

In forum theatre the audience is invited to substitute actors to explore “alternative outcomes” or to “hot seat” them to investigate their characters’ motives.