DU` Theatre Group

“ To perform, effect, transact, bring about, work at, work out, provide and prepare”

Weeds - 2006

MITP Theatre
Valletta, Malta

Actors
Simone Spiteri
Magda van Kuilenburg
Franica Pulis
Annabelle Galea
Kristjana Casha

Musicians
Tim Ellis
Michael Galea
Neville Zammit


The Vilest Deeds like Poison Weeds,
Bloom Well in Poison Air
Oscar Wilde

A relatively minor poet, Housman’s work is simple, but yet, almost quietly chilling. Taking his nostalgic and often pessimistic poems as a starting point and setting it against the contrastingly extravagant exuberance of his era (mainly stimulated by the Edwardian Golden Age and great outrageous individuals like Oscar Wilde) an ideal background for an eerie concoction of black-humour, grotesqueness and wit which surrounds the peculiar characters we meet in the play, was created.

Three eclectic women, of quite different and eccentric temperaments receive an enigmatic invitation by the devious Madame Edda Withers. Enticed by a promised revelation of a secret and an outrageous proposition, this series of mis-matched characters flocks to Madame's abode which is over-seen by the mysterious and eerie Mrs. Staunch- without knowing they are all stepping beyond a pre-set threshold only the shrewd-hearted can survive. Looking through the magnified lenses of 5 people at the omnipresent themes of life, death and corruption the play tries to examine the fact that sometimes, ultimately some things fail to break the circular evolution of life and the people who inhabit it.

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