The theatre company Talenti is launching a new project, in the form of a dramatised monologue, about the turbulent and sometimes shocking life of Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio.

The original scripting is by Alfred Palma, direction by Zep Camilleri, and Mario Micallef will do the monologue.

Caravaggio’s character not only makes an interesting proposition but also an intriguing debate. He made a name for himself as a painter of the highest order of the Italian Baroque. He unashamedly produced numerous religious masterpieces portraying biblical figures as common people. Most of them  were controversial works of art that ruffled a few mitres within the church hierarchy but which were purchased willingly by rich nobles for their spectacular technique, for their originality and most probably for their homoerotic content.

The performance will take place on the 1st , 2nd and then the 8th and 9th December in the intimacy of the circular theatre of St James Cavalier in Valletta. Due to the nature of the drama as it unfolds and the language used, only patrons over the age of 16 will be allowed in.