A year into the pandemic, the show is most certainly going on with Toi Toi, Teatru Manoel’s education programme. The members of this year’s Teatru Manoel Youth Theatre (TMYT) cohort continued their training throughout this difficult year and are now ready to tread the boards with Pjazza Pastizzi, a commedia that promises to cheer up even the gloomiest of spectators.
Pjazza Pastizzi is a devised comedy, created entirely by the young actors following TMYT’s training programme that falls under the Teatru Manoel education programme, Toi Toi.
A devised comedy script is created collectively by a group of actors who improvise and keep the parts they like, developing them further until a script is created. A year into a pandemic that has upended everyone’s life, TMYT’s actors felt that comedy would be an apt antidote to the stress of living through a prolonged crisis.