Comments on: From the Theatre Blog at The Guardian

By: Paula FS

Paula FS — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:04:05 +0000

I actually went to watch a rehearsal of ‘Stitching’ and I can only conclude that the classification board didn’t quite get it. Yes – it’s brutal. Yes – there were a couple of scenes which made me feel pretty uncomfortable, but it’s also honest, and ultimately a sad and touching portrayal of two people who go to extreme lengths to save their failing relationship. And all the lines vis-a-vis Auschwitz etc that have been quoted with wild abandon have been completely misunderstood. This has been said many times before, but I’ll say it again – how can one judge the merits or otherwise of this play without having actually seen it? Words on a script are just that – words which can only come to life with the input of the actors and their interpretation of the text. I sincerely hope that by the end of this debacle, the public will have the chance to watch it as it is meant to be performed, and judge for themselves.

By: Andrea Sammut

Andrea Sammut — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:30:26 +0000

@Daphne. It must be tiresome having to deal with communicators who have a rather keen eye for detail that you’re not even allowed a typo, but it did change the whole meaning of the sentence. What’s more now you have an offended relative writing on the other thread. Veru ghandek pacenzja.

By: Andrea Sammut

Andrea Sammut — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:05:09 +0000

@Daphne. “the few years of my working life”. Or should that be ‘a few’? From what you write, it seems that you have worked for around twenty years, and that’s not a few years.

[Daphne – There’s a word missing. It should have read ‘the first few years of my working life’.]

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:18:10 +0000

So that’s where you developed your good Taste(s) Daphne. Today my dad told me that the Marsa area used to be a dangerous area (before the war) where a lot of armed thefts occurred in broad daylight.
In one occasion the robbers held up a businessman in a karozzin and before they left they cut the horses reins.Today they would take the car keys.

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:54:08 +0000

No, he was truly artful in the way he swore. He would put all the right adjectives and what not with swear words in a truly artful and natural fashion. He would scare the shit out of everyone at the Luqa MLP Club when he got a bit hot under the collar, and start really swearing. Mintoff’s bodyguard would insert three or more swear words in every sentence in such a manner that no one would even think of starting an argument with Cikku on bird trapping, wine making or rabbit breeding, let alone politics.
Now if this is not art, then what is?

‘Stitches’ when compared to Cikku’s compilation of unwritten odes to “il-Madonna” is a non starter.
Ma’ tifhimx f’dawn l-affarijiet, Daphne.

[Daphne – I spent the few few years of my working life at Timber Wharf, Marsa.]

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:55:45 +0000

If you call this art, then “Cikku bezzaghni” must have been a superstar!

[Daphne – John, that is demonstrably not the point. If we had to start banning bad art…..]

By: Leonard

Leonard — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:46:59 +0000

Looks like some people are still stuck in the no-fun-with-butter mentality of some 35 years ago.

[Daphne – Last Tanga in Bormla….]