“Every artist was first an amateur,” claimed American thinker and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. For some artists, the spark that fuels inspiration s
A crime that shook Malta to its core has been called to the stage in a new production by
Herman Grech. They Blew Her Up is the first play written to address the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the fallout from her assassination.
Lara Zammit and
Joseph Agius reflect on the play and its ramifications.
Hatred is perhaps not an instinctive and immediate emotion. Hatred simmers and occasionally takes decades to reach its boiling point, resulting possibly in the blowing up of a car and its occupant…
In Herman Grech’s theatrical production They Blew Her Up, the history and possible origin of Maltese political and social hatred is explored. One could point fingers at an irascible political leader whose words fomented the resentment towards certain strata of Maltese society; other fingers could be pointed at an intransigent Church and an opposition that piggybacked on the favourable circumstances.