The Malta Arts Festival, which will be held between the 1st and 18th of July 2012, has an extensive programme of excellent artistic events including music, theatre, dance and a visual arts exhibition. The Malta Arts Festival has invited top performers of international repute in its constant commitment to present to its audiences events of the highest quality. Foreign and Maltese artists are expected to appear on the Festival’s platform in a three-week extravaganza of artistic events. The Festival direction is confident that the programme of events, covering an array of diverse styles and genres, will appeal to audiences of all demographics.
Since debuting on the local cultural calendar back in 2006, the Festival has each year sought to expand and evolve in order to offer its audience a programme of artistic excellence, which is fresh, exciting and innovative. This year’s edition of the Festival continues in this fashion through introducing two brand new initiatives into the fold of its artistic programme: Theatre Week and the Emerging Artists Series.
Featuring an extensive assortment of workshops, talks, demonstrations, and performances, Theatre Week offers theatre practitioners and enthusiasts a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with some of today’s most distinguished thespian visionaries. The Llanarth Group and Phillip Zarrilli will present Making the Body All Eyes, an intensive workshop on acting techniques applied to structured improvisations and performance problems of Samuel Beckett’s plays. They will also be giving four special performances of a selection of Beckett’s late-period short plays, including Not I, a play which was inspired by Caravaggio’s The Beheading of St. John the Baptist during the playwright’s stay in Malta in 1971.