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9 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 18 AUGUST 2019 CULTURE ENVIRONMENT Jellyfish have a bad name, and some admittedly not with- out reason, thanks to those nasty stinging tentacles. But not all jellyfish are stingers. One of the gentler and most stunningly beautiful is the innocuous fried-egg jellyfish. It's called that, not because you can make a breakfast of it but because, well just look at the picture! It is also called the Mediterranean jelly as it is so common and familiar around our beloved Mare Nostrum. Like others of its kind, the fried-egg jellyfish (M. qassata – looks a bit like one too!) is a pelagic animal, drifting along with the currents, gently pul- sating its curtained head, while very young mackerel often dart among its purple-tipped tentacles. And round about now they're starting to show up. Enjoy. Text: Victor Falzon Photo: Victor Falzon 674. FRIED-EGG JELLYFISH Michael Fenech directs Teatru Malta's dark comedy 'Rinoceronti' Visit Friends of the Earth's website for more information about our work, as well as for information about how to join us. You can also support us by sending us a donation - www.foemalta.org/donate GREEN IDEA OF THE WEEK 574: Booking and more information at: www.foemalta.org/goodfood THE religious wear their faith to show who they are but hide away what they really were indeed. The peaceful nun who is very in- volved in charity work, how did she live her initial 20 years of life? What did she go through? Who knows how many stories involving love and those of sorrow are carried whenever the consecrated attire is worn. Who knows? Fis-Satra tal-Velu Books by Helen Borg AS part of Teatru Malta's Proġett Klassiċi, a yearly ini- tiative aimed at producing modern classics in Maltese, the National Theatre com- pany will be presenting one of Ionesco's masterpieces this September at the Esplora Planetarium hall in Kalkara! Rinoċeronti, translated by Clare Azzopardi and Albert Gatt, will be directed by Mi- chael Fenech and is a trans- lation of one of Ionesco's ac- claimed plays and part of his Berenger cycle: Rhinocéros (Rhinoceros). This wide-eyed absurdist piece of theatre deals with conformism, mass hysteria and alienation amongst other interesting motifs. Rinoċeronti will form part of the second edition of the Proġett Klassiċi series titled Tliet Xogħlijiet ta' Eugene Ionesco edited by Marco Galea in collaboration with the University of Malta and will be published along- side Maltese translations of Io- nesco's La Cantatrice Chauve (The Bald Soprano) and La Leçon (The Lesson). Throughout this dark com- edy it's apparent that some- thing very absurd is going on, in a town where nothing ab- surd ever does. In this town, a very normal town, full of peo- ple who lead very ordinary, cereal box family sort of lives, something's about to happen, something strange. But what happens when those people, those very same normal people you thought you knew so well, begin to change? Do you change too? Do you conform? Or do you dare to rebel? Rinoceronti stars Daniel Azzopardi as Be- renger the hero who is alter- nately frightened, defiant, des- perate, frustrated, impotent, self-loathing, envious and ul- timately completely unhinged by the looming "epidemic" in a way that is immediately relat- able to audiences. The production also stars local favourites: Andre Man- gion, Antonella Axisa, Kim Dalli, Naomi Said, Magda von Kuilenberg, Joe Depasquale, Anthony Ellul, Simon Curmi, Aaron Fenech and Daniela Carabott Pawley. Rinoceronti will run from the 12th until the 15th of Septem- ber at Esplora. For tickets and more information visit kultu- ra.mt or call 21220255.