Lacuna - 2006

MITP Theatre
Valletta, Malta

Actors
Simone Spiteri
Magda van Kuilenburg
Franica Pulis
Kristjana Casha

Others
Victoria Vella
Jonathan Mamo

Musicians
Tim Ellis, Chris Cini
Michael Galea

Lightsperson
Joseph Meli

“X'imkien 'il boghod 'il boghod fejn tinxtamm biss riha ta` stejjer mitmuma...”
Trevor Zahra

Four women in an empty space who have nothing in common; who don't know who they are, where they are, who the other three are… and who they themselves are. Only one thing connects them- they all know how to sing the Santa Lucia until they find a way of how to remember...


Also performed

• May 2007 at Sentinella, Citadella Gozo, part of Lejlet Lapsi - Notte Gozitana activities and the day after at MITP Theatre in conjunction with Trevor Zahra's book launch of Sepja, on which Lacuna is loosely based.
• September 2007, performed twice, at Al-Tali'ah-Salah Abdel Sabour Hall during the 19th edition of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET 2007) in Cairo Egypt. In that year 88 theatre groups from 51 different countries participated in CIFET.
• December 2007, performed once at Sala Falcone in Borsellino Theatre during the 19th edition of Lo Sguardo, l'Anima e La Maschera in Ibla, Sicily. This year songwriter, singer and pianist Carrie and the Big Band Brothers participated as performers from Malta. The Festival was organised and directed by Arturo Mingardi.
• May/ June 2008, commissioned to perform twice at Warehouse no. 8 in Marsa, Malta by NGO Il-Mahzen.
• August/ September 2008, invited to perform in the 8th edition of the Amateur International Theatre Festival of Girona (FITAG 2008), Spain. This year 12 theatre companies are participating in this festival. 8 of them are Spanish. The rest are from Germany, Austria, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Poland, Russia and obviously Maltese.

Also invited to perform in

• 2007 Tunisia
• 2007 Rome, Italy
• 2008 Prague, Czech Republic

Check out:
http://www.fitag.cat/2008/eng/index.html

http://www.ilmahzen.com/warehouse/home.html

http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/exp_theater/index_e.htm

http://news.gom.net.eg/prog/2007/09/15/04.pdf?year=2007&month=09&day=15&page=04&submit=sous-net

We would like to thank MTA for sponsoring part of our flight tickets and the Egyptian Embassy in Malta for their precious help. We would also like to thank Il-Mahzen for choosing Lacuna as their first theatre performance for their project Warehouse no.8.