@true thespian: for clarity’s sake, here are some figures. Average director’s fee at Manoel is between 800 and 1000 euros. My fee for SULARI. And XBIHAT was 300 euros each. As this was a co production with the Manoel, the management offered the amenities of the theatre and i offered the script as equal parts of the investment, which means i was not paid a cent for the script. We shared the profits equally. My take on sulari was just over 2k and 1.5k on Xbihat. Subtract 8k on fares for me and Therese over both productions and living expenses in Malta (the manoel made an apt available for my duration on the island) and perhaps you would kindly review your statements. These are not projects given to me by the manoel this was a co investment risk taken by both the theatre and myself. And for the first time in over 20 years two original Maltese plays filled all nights to capacity. Thank you.

Basta maqdru kull progett li sar issa jridu jiftahru bihom.

Halluna tal-Labour tridhux.

Il-Partit Nazzjonalista huwa l-uniku partit li hadem biex jaghmel Malta taghna lkoll.

Il-hdura taghkom ga bdiet hierga wara l-ewwel mass meeting li kellna go Haz-Zabbar meta ghaddew xi partitarji Laburisti jfittxu l-glied minn quddiemna imma baqa f’wicchom ghax hadd ma ta kas il-vulgarita u l-injoranza taghhom.

Yes, she believes in everyone’s right to what is morally theirs. Except when someone is left injured by a lorry

They shouldn’t have been on the pavement, street too narrow.

They put one of the plastic iPhones in Piazza Regina opposite the Casino.

I saw tourists walk up to it mistaking it for a menu.

Albert Marshall was all over the place when the strategy for creativity was introduced for discussion a few months ago.

Obviously he’s not having anyone take his money.

Frederick Testa – directed dramas on Net TV and earned himself a living from there for a couple of years before directing other dramas for PBS which according to JosephMuscat.com is a PN club.

Jane and Albert Marshall – came back from Australia and have been given project after project, enough for Albert to live off drama and rather comfortably.

Mario Philip Azzopardi – in the last 3 years has been given project after project by Teatru Manoel (getting paid more then any other local director/producer) to produce his plays.

And Mario Philip had once declared that he would not be speaking to Albert Marshall any more because the latter had accepted to sit on the board of directors of the new theatre after protesting against it.

Plenty of metrosexual zaghzagh though. It’s like Friends meets Sex in the City meets Leni Riefenstahl.