14,15 & 21, 22 March 1998
Heya! Heya! The circus is in town! Come on in Ladeez n' gennulmen!
The show is about to begin!
A very appropriate battle cry for "One flew over ..."
When I started working on the staging of this play the first thing I established was the three acting areas, possibly to match the three dimensions I decided to give to the performance.
The fist two dimensions are pretty obvious within the script, the social and the political ... the establishment delving into the souls of the citizens, conditioning them ... Nurse Ratched.
The third one, I would like to believe, is more a personal interpretation of the theatrical dimension. This I see as a somewhat European touch to an American play. To me two of the main characters are the incarnation of the double mask of theatre ... the comedy, in the person of McMurphy and the tragedy as narrated by Dale Harding. Throughout the play, they reluctantly exchange roles, assuming the tragi-comic role par excellence of the clown or even maybe Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.
These two characters I engineered to create a tangible link with the audience, just like some Arlecchino or Pantaleone. They open up the converstaion to include the audience, thus destroying sometimes the illusion created ... or are we all part of that illusion? They are intermittently trying to rope in the spectators making them conscious that this is also their story ... a tragic joke. Those outside must find themselves under lock and key in a cluastrophobic prison. To use a cliche, we are all locked up in an asylum called society, restrained into the straitjacket of convention.
SALVU MALLIA
| Chief Bromden | Joe Cortis |
| Aide Warren | Victor Debono |
| Aide Williams | Colin Azzopardi |
| Nurse Ratched | Anna Cachia |
| Nurse Flinn | Jackie Bartolo |
| Dale Harding | Charles Sammut |
| Billy Bibbit | Darrin Zammit Lupi |
| Scanlon | Salvu Mallia |
| Charles Cheswick | Joe Pace |
| Ruckly | Mark Vella |
| Martini | Aldo Briffa |
| Randle P McMurphy | Anthony Ellul |
| Dr. Spivey | Chris Gruppetta |
| Aide Turkle | Lino Mallia |
| Candy Starr | Jo Christine Scicluna |
| Sandra | Josephine Fuller |
| Stage Manager | Ray Ebejer |
| Asst. Stage Manager | Nadia Attard Cassar |
| Set Construction |
Lino Mallia, Colin Azzopardi |
| Poster | Salvu Mallia, Anthony Ellul |
| Set Design | Salvu Mallia |
| Publicity | Ivan Fenech |
| Photography | Darrin Zammit Lupi |
| Book | Roberta Cauchi |
| Lights and Sound | Steve Theuma |
| Front of House | John Ellul, Claudia Ellul |
| Make-Up | Anton and Jackie Farrugia |
| Special Thanks To: | Moira Borg Cardona, Koperattiva Kulturali Universita', Joe Saliba (Precincts Office), Sapienza's Bookshop, The Perfection, Mario Ellul, Polidano Bros., Victor Sammut, David Cortis, Catherine Fenech, Lowenbrau Malta Ltd. |
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