POLITICAL STAGE

mately, her humanity.”

Apart from Angele’s richly-detailed performance, Apotheosis is also an immersive, multi-visual production, enhanced by various other mediums including film and music, and structured around celebrated composer Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate. “The Lamentate inform and expose the universe and world we’ve created,” explains Marc.

The production team behind Apotheosis has also planned to extend the show’s immersive expression into a series of fringe events, including intensive workshops and post-show talks, which tackle the many controversial and topical themes explored in the play, with speakers including leading academics, activists and experts on gender equality. In keeping with the play’s debut date of 7 March, fittingly a day before Women’s Day, the Twenty-Four Hour Theatre Challenge workshop will offer practical guidance to young aspiring female theatre practitioners, while discussing the lack of female participation in political life and the role of women in Maltese society.

“Through Apotheosis and the show’s related events, we are striving to achieve an experience that allows the audience to be sucked into Dolores’ world,” Marc concludes. “The images, mood and design of the piece, together with the heightened tension that the script invokes and Angele’s performance, will bring to life an entertaining, highly captivating, thought-provoking piece of theatre.” ‘ Apotheosis’ will be performed at Spazju Kreattiv from Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 March and Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 March at 8pm; with a matinee performance on Wednesday 13 March at 2pm. Ticket prices start at €10. For bookings visit www.kreattivita.org/en/event/apotheose/ The outreach and education programme of this project has been funded by the Small Initiatives Support Scheme (SIS), managed by the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector (MCVS). This project/publication reflects the views only of the author and the MCVS cannot be held responsible for the content or any use which may be made of the information contained therein.