I was slightly worried about watching this play before entering the Spazju Kreattiv theatre. I was half expecting the worst – a play that would pander and
A production about real-life stories of women, which comes on the heels of two femicides in Malta in as many months, is set to fill a gap in the local theatre s
Teatru Manoel is finally reopening its doors on October 29 after the pandemic-enforced hiatus with one mission: to attract as diverse an audience as possible an
Spazju Kreattiv takes a look at the events which rocked a nation and drew international unwarranted attention to the place we call home
The events that occurred over the past few years have revealed many of the much less pleasant features of Maltese society. These less than savoury traits are often ignored or, at best, kept secret. but the shocking murder of a journalist brought them to light and held them up for scrutiny.
Spazju Kreattiv’s latest production, They Blew Her Up is a fictionalised dramatisation of the events that followed the brutal car-bombing of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Written and directed by Herman Grech, the treatment that this topic was given could not have been in more knowledgeable hands, since Grech himself was very actively involved in the development of the case from a journalistic standpoint.
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.