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MANIFEST '72 
The author’s manifesto, first published in 1972 with the collection of plays 
“4 DRAMMI" .  

"This first collection of plays..."  (Read on)
 

The need for a contemporary theatre, which reflects a society that is going through the rapid development which our society is going through today... (Read on.)

FIL-PRINĊIPJU U
FIL- PRATTIKA...

"Il-Malti huwa  l-Ilsien
ta’ Malta u element ewlieni ta’l-identità nazzjonali
tal-Maltin.

L-Ilsien Malti huwa parti essenzjali mill-wirt nazzjonali, li jiġġedded ta’ kuljum fuq fomm il-Maltin, li jagħżel lill-poplu Malti minn kull poplu ieħor li jagħti lill-istess poplu l-aqwa mezz għall-espressjoni.

L-Istat Malti jagħraf fl-Ilsien Malti espressjoni qawwija tan-nazzjonalità tal-Maltin, u għalhekk jagħtih l-għarfien xieraq u meħtieġ kollu billi jagħraf l-importanza tiegħu fil-prinċipju u fil-prattika, u jgħasses biex dan l-ilsien ma jitħassarx u ma jintilifx."
 

ANSEJTÀ U ANESTESIJA FIL-LABIRINTI TAT-TEATRIN
Diskors dwar demel u dramm

 "IL-KITBA TEATRALI: HEMM XI KRIŻI?"
Seminar organizzat mill-Università ta' Malta,
Studji Teatrali fl-1997

Theatre is alive and well and
LIVING  OFF-OFF MANOEL

A report in the Sunday Times of Malta 
on the Seminar held at the University of Malta  
on March 1st, 1997 

"Il-Kitba Teatrali f'Malta -  Hemm xi Kriżi?"

L-ARKIVJU
STORIKU

IL-PALK TA' ŻGĦUŻITI
Erin Serracino Inglott 1966

IR-REALIŻMU
Guże Diacono

F'DAN IL-BAĦĦ INPENETRABBLI TAT-TEATRU  MALTI
(2002)

F’dan il-baħħ inpenetrabbli tat-teatru Malti, dan il-vojt imraqqa' bil-qargħa aħmar ta’ sforzi kultant medjokri, kultant imqanżħin, kultant (rarament) tajbin, jispikka n-nuqqas totali ta’ sforzi ġenwini u strutturati biex noħorġu  d-dramm Malti għall-beraħ.... (kompli aqra)

ABOUT THEATRICAL COLONIAL TIME WARPS AND THE PRICE WE PAY

Letter to the Independent on Sunday, May 2002.

"Karl Schembri and his admirable investigative contribution on  “The Dead Theatre Society”, may serve, if nothing else, to at least postpone any early rushed post-mortem on the cause of the death (or is it an imminent death?) of a an institution which may or may not have existed anyway in these islands for the past fifty years or so. (Read on)

DEAD PLAYWRIGHTS REVISITED

The Sunday Times of Malta
August 11, 2002

WHITEWASHING THE MANOEL

A letter to the Sunday Times of Malta dated 24.09.02 in which the playwright tries  to come to terms with the atrocious state of the local theatrical environment.  
RESULT?
Given that the artistic director of the Manoel Theatre contemptuosly  writes off half a century of writing for the Maltese Theatre as simply "bad litterature", ("friends of friends", bla bla bla...)  virtually accusing all local writers of incompetence and nepotism... whilst the self same  local writers, won't even dare say boo!... so ... "Is writing in Maltese nothing but a fool's game?

GĦAX HEMM PALK MALTI U HEMM PALK MALTI
Dwar konkorsi ta' drammi, nuqqas ta' xogħol ta' drammaturġija, tqanċiċ, vanaglorja, u nuqqas ta' trasparenza.
Korrispondenza fil-MUMENT  (Awissu 2002)

"Wieħed għandu  jifhem... li x-xogħol ta' konkors għandu jibda wara li jitħabbru r-riżultati"
 

PALK MALTII KONTEMPORANJU